Hear, hear! -Rens At 11:21 PM 4/30/2002 -0700, Einar Stefferud wrote: >Well, I am doing my part by exercising my rights to avoid buying any of >the stuff that does not let me copy it, and I will not buy any computer >stuff that is unable to copy stuff. > >And, so I agree that if the IPR folk want to be so damned proprietary, >they can just sit at home with all their unsold stuff. > >If they tie up the Internet as we know it, the USENET WILL RISE AGAIN and >we will have two Internets passing in the night. And, after a while, >things will come back together with the re-introduction of sanity. > >Is this not how the world always muddles through? > >Fortunately, there remains a group of people who have kept the USENET >spirit alive while the Internet has run over almost everything else. > >So there;-)...\Stef > >PS: And, I did not appreciate USENET for what it was (and is) at the time;-! > > >At 12:39 AM -0400 5/1/02, Keith Moore wrote: >> > i think people should be free to create and share but that those who wish >> > to claim rights should not be prevented from doing so. >> >>sure - but which rights they should be able to claim, what remedies should be >>available when rights are violated, and what presumptions are made by the law >>until disputes are adjucated? slightly different answers to these questions >>have drastically different effects. >> >>Keith > >- >This message was passed through ietf_censored@carmen.ipv6.cselt.it, which >is a sublist of ietf@ietf.org. Not all messages are passed. >Decisions on what to pass are made solely by Raffaele D'Albenzio.