Copyrights serve more than one purpose. For example, some song writers, speech writers, poets, professors copyright their work for the sole purpose of preserving it's content intact. They make the work freely available, but insist (as a part of the the use agreement) that the work not be altered - prevents use for perverse, unintended reasons, and that it always be presented in it's entirety - prevents portions from being taken out of context. The sadest reflection on much of academia today is that though they welcome diversity of individuals and cultures - as they should - they eschew diversity of social thought. We must all have the same views or suffer public ridicule. Regards, Bob... From: "Pablo Coronel" <pcorone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 2) that stopped the day tax payers and industry didn't give a damn about > universities unless they help the patetns/copyrights of their inventions > > At 05:01 AM 4/13/04, you wrote: > >1) > > > ><<If you wanted to be really pedantic>> > >then you would realise that all your calculations apply to pinholes in an > >"infinitely thin" plate. With real materials which have finite thickness > >the calculations are more involved ;o) > > > >2) What a sad reflection on academia. A copyright notice on a graph! Where > >have the days gone when Universities did work for the good of mankind ;o)
