On 11/18/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All you zealots of the free market will have to explain to me someday why your boys decided it was "free" to keep extending copyright on and on and on ...
I'm a free market zealot, if what you mean is limited government and economic freedom. I don't think that there is anyone in Congress who represents my views, or even approximates them. So it wouldn't be fair to call them my boys. Or girls, for that matter. I don't think we can make points for or against a particular position, by judging the actions of Congressmembers who occasionally make noise that sounds like the rhetoric we recognize. It's tempting to look at something that a politician did, then point it out to an opponent and say, "See? Look what *your side* did." But it's not really fair. The concrete behind the generalizations there, is that I do not think that there is anything in my free-market views that would require that copyright be extended. The only connection I see is that some people were promoting (or attacking) the extension on the grounds that it was "pro-business" in some vague, undefined, and therefore self-evident way. --Rachel -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
