On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 14:36, jtd<[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> Actually copyright law in several countries, believe in shooting the > messenger. So the service provider (Raj, FOSSCOM, net connectivity guy etc) > are actually liable for copyright violations. This is precisely the premise > under which P2P networks were taken down. > With copyright violations being criminalised in India, we are following in the > same footsteps as USA, France, UK etc. are you saying that copyright violations should not be criminalised . If so how do you see them ? While I do agree for short copyright terms, say of the original 14 years, I do have strong views on copyright violations. <snip> > Unfortunately court decisions have taken precisely the stance that you argue > against. which means there is a precedent. Yesterday, I just had an interesting conversation on something similar, not purely in context but very much in common with some of the observations about communities and FOSS-based communities at that. The said person, let's call him 'Mr. X' contended that his mails were not being sent because he top-posts. Mr. X is a businessman and he wants to do some commercial activity using GNU/Linux as a base. He doesn't understand why posts have to be in a certain way to be accepted. >From what he understands about 'FOSS' is we can remix things as we like. That is the differentiation that we seek to provide from commercial closed-source software (or not) . While I did manage to pacify him to an extent, but this is something we need to think about. Is it about what is called the 'strict mothering syndrome/style' that doesn't think there is diversity in how one feels. Are we supposed to be uniformed in what we write, how we write and what we do. Its not just a license issue. Its an expression and a freedom issue (for me). > -- > Rgds > JTD > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
