On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:10:18AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > Well how would you propose to enforce copyrights then? > > Law.
We got laws already. They aren't working. So then we got more laws like DMCA. They aren't working. Now we're likely to get more nastly laws. You haven't convinced me yet why the cure (copyright enforcement) is not worse than the disease (sharing) here yet. > > 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? > > Tomorrow? No. In three years? Quite possibly. Buy *why*? What would Apache, OpenBSD and X.org developers lose if copyright was gone tomorrow? cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
