Tim My challenge with all this dialogue and your input is that you are stuck in one position and have failed to see the entire big picture we are all talking about. Which painfully leads me to kind of agree with Wire's High Horse statement. Listen we might seem to you to be morally corrupt and that we will openly steal. What we are telling you is that currently the law of the land does not cater for this. The experiment as per dialogue has highlighted a number of areas that need to be carefully considered.
My position is that we should do it if it serves our national interests and not because the rest of the world has done it. That was the modus operandi in the colonial days where we only did what our colonial masters thought was best. The example of Kenya and Uganda where strict adherence in a mode of copy and paste of these laws has seen Uganda leapfrog Kenya in the local music industry is clear that we will have to approach this from a totally different angle. I do not have the answers and nor do you. Only collective dialogue without name calling will fix this. I would also like to emphasize the difference between Linux and the multimedia industry which I know you understand but conveniently ignore. The problem is we have to understand that difference because atleast 90% of all developments made by developers on this list will use some kind of mutli-media. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Schofield [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:58 AM > To: Linux Users Group Uganda > Subject: Re: [LUG] Experiment on Content (Yesterday's radio) > > Ok, there are lots of threads within a thread here so let me summarise > the arguments. Please feel free to comment if you do not agree. > > It is a fact that Badru has a site on which he is distributing > copyrighted material that does not belong to him and without the > permission of the owners. > > It is a fact that taking something that does not belong to you without > the permission of the owner is theft. > > Badru and others say that this is acceptable as there are other people > who are also stealing from these people so he may as well join in. I > do not agree with this. > > This is a Linux user group. Linux would not exist without copyright > law. If people in the rest of the world do not respect copyright law, > the software we all enjoy will disappear. > > It is not ok to portray this as the developing world against the > developed world. Other developing countries including the rest of EAC > are trying to respect the rights of copyright holders. Why can't > Uganda. > > These are hard working creative artists and programmers that you are > agreeing it is acceptable to steal from. > > This summarisesz my position I think. > > -- > WebERP Africa Ltd > +447710427049 > +256752963327 > +255784602561 > www.weberpafrica.com > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. > --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
