Re: [ox-en] Re: Graham Seaman * The Two Economies; Or: Why the washing machine question is the wrong question (was: [ox-en] Conference documentation)
- From: MJ Ray <markj cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:13:47 -0000
Graham Seaman <graham opencollector.org> wrote:
This argument came up before the conference. I think copyleft for opinion
pieces is unneccessary and unhelpful (as does rms - eg
This is one of the places where I find rms's views on the subject of
copyright wholly arbitrary and illogical. There are other laws which
protect the author against misrepresentation, so why use a heavy-handed
copyright sledgehammer that also smashes much of the usefulness of the
work? I think rms's own arguments for the benefits of copyleft still
apply to opinion pieces, largely.
I can think of a couple of places where your article could provoke some
interesting debate, but as it stands, it is probably too long for those
meetings and purposes. I doubt that I have time to paraphrase much of
it and still get the details correct. Abridged versions for specific
situations would be useful, but is not possible at present.
MJR
_______________________
http://www.oekonux.org/