On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:04:18PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > Okay, so let's say that all published books were available in every > bookstore. > > I'd never want to go into a bookstore. You couldn't find anything > decent to read.
Are you saying that copyright system has the advantage of making it obvious what the 'quality' works to pay attention to are?..is that your point? > Copy-protection technology isn't part of a (decent) copyright system; > rather, it's what's used when the copyright system can't enforce > copyrights. We'd see *more* copy protection. Well how would you propose to enforce copyrights then? > Indeed. The abolition of copyright would mean that nobody would ship > software unless it was copy-protected. Anyone who did would find that > their software was stolen, improved upon, and then sold, with copy > protection... I'm still waiting for why you think BSD/APL/MIT/X11 licensed software developers aren't a counter-argument to this assertion. Why would Apache & OpenBSD developers lose ALL their motivation tomorrow if copyright was abolished? cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
