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  4. From: holiday@bnr.ca (Matthew Holiday)
  5. Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
  6. Message-ID: <C0HoM3.5G5@news.rich.bnr.ca>
  7. Sender: holiday@crchh82 (Matthew Holiday)
  8. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:06:02 GMT
  9. Reply-To: holiday@bnr.ca
  10. References: <D2150035.mrrnh5@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <1993Jan5.075021.970@shawn.uucp> <MARKF.93Jan6095854@montreux.ai.mit.edu>
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  12. Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, TX
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  15. In article <MARKF.93Jan6095854@montreux.ai.mit.edu>, markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman)
  16. writes:
  17. |> 
  18. |> The copyleft (i.e. the "strings") are only there to counter existing
  19. |> restrictive intellectual property laws. If those laws didn't exist
  20. |> neither would the copyleft (and the need for it).
  21. |> 
  22.  
  23. The ``restrictive intellectual property laws'' are what make intellectual property
  24. property, i.e., something that can be bought, sold, and owned.  If those laws didn't
  25. exist then software, books, plays, movies, TV shows, magazines, etc. wouldn't be
  26. property, which is perhaps what Stallman wants (and which would amount to pure
  27. socialism).  Somewhere in the back of the GNU emacs manual (the yellow book) he's
  28. got a statement that it wouldn't be a bad thing for programmers to be paid less.
  29. If you believe that, please send me half your paycheck...! :-)
  30.  
  31. -- 
  32. Matt Holiday                                      #include <std/disclaimer>
  33. holiday@bnr.ca
  34. BNR Richardson, TX
  35.