On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:24:24PM +0100, Gareth Davis wrote: > Anyone else find it strange that Richard Stallman feels it is apparently > unjust for Microsoft and others to publish software that users are not > free to share and modify, but it is ok to publish an article which > readers are not free to share and modify? >
I can see what you're getting at but they are entirely different beasts. An article (or even many hundreds of articles) isn't running inside your computer preventing you from (for example) playing back a movie you downloaded 32 days ago. It's an inert piece of text. I've seen RMS give a talk at FOSDEM a few years ago where he covered his opinions on copyright and how there should be different rules for software, art, articles and so on. I'm sure that there's probably a copy online somewhere. (besides the fact that there is a cc license on that article of course) Cheers, Al. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
