At Wed, 3 May 2006 20:21:17 +0200, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1 <multipart/signed (7bit)>] > [1.1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 19:50: > > > And do you know what the side-effects are? > > No. I suppose the rich were getting richer on the expense of the poor? > > An author could only hope being paid when ordered a work. The only real > way to earn a living as an author was to be under the protection of a > patron. > > Which leads to self-censorship, because an author cannot affort to write > something his patron would not agree with.
This is not different at all from how self-censorship works today in the media. The patron is the editor, with the advertisers behind him. Or, in the case of music, the label. However, a patron (or equivalent) is not the only possible way to sustain creative people that contribute to society. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
