On Thu, December 7, 2006 3:45 pm, Todd Walton wrote: > On 12/7/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, December 7, 2006 9:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > "I'm wondering if it is justified to strip the public of its right to >> > learning & edification from existing creations. >> >> Giving all rights to the public, including opportunistic profiteering >> reproducers, hardly represents balance > > Chris's "learning & edification" is Lan's "opportunistic > profiteering". What else could learning from someone else's work be? > > -todd >
If publishing and selling a professor's text book that took years to write without compensating him/her is learning from his work, I say you have a strange concept of educating oneself. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
