Hi Badru, On 10/08/2010, Badru Ntege (MPP) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
:-D Well yes, I hold one position on one subject. How many do you hold? > 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. > And what I keep saying is that just because the law allows you to steal doesn't make it morally acceptable. At least that is my one position on the subject. > 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. I am sorry I totally fail to see how the standard argument of "its not our fault its all the fault of the colonialists" can apply to stealing the works of creative artists. > 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. The answer is simple. Show respect for other peoples property. Its easy really. All this talk of grey areas, cloning, archiving is just rubbish. You are taking other peoples property without their permission. Just accept it. Its not an experiment, its just theft. You condone it, I dont. I'm not sure what the argument is about? > > 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. I am sorry I dont understand the difference at all. They are both creative material copyrighted by their authors. Perhaps you could elaborate for me? > > -- 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. ---------------------------------------
