Bob Maxey <written_by@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Copyright isn't there to protect Starving Artists. > > Indeed, a quite silly notion. A copyright is there to protect anyone > that properly uses the system. > >> It's there to feed the coffers of Disney, Microsoft and every one >> else with enough money to buy the system. > > Naturally you can substantiate your assertions? Who exactly has > bought the system? Particularly from the US perspective, the updates from fixed term, to life+50, to life+70, clearly are not primarily for the benefit of "Starving Artists", because most of the upgrade (all of the second upgrade) takes place after they are dead. That was too easy! -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
