On Tue, November 21, 2006 5:53 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:47:07PM -0800: > [snip] >> But if copyright is abolished, then singers, writers, actors, musicians >> will all become the lowest form of wage slaves and the profits reaped by >> non-creators will be even MORE obscene. And I say this with some >> confidence because that's the way it was before copyright. There is no >> reason to believe that human beings have improved in some way over the >> years. > > We've gotten better at reaping obscene profits. >
We still have a way to go on that to achieve the levels of the 18th Century and the Guilded Age. -- Lan Barnes Tcl/Tk Enthusiast SCM Analyst Linux Guy Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
