[Wolves] Microsoft licensing - (continued from the LUG meating)

[Kevanf1]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:22:28 +0000, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:46:32 +0000, Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> > On 11/1/2005, "Kevanf1" <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Adding to this, I will say that I have been angry about the whole area
> > >of copyright for much longer than I have known about the DRM or even
> > >the whole Open Source ethos.  It all started when I realised -
> > >literally decades ago - that a certain Mr Disney was allowed to use
> > >old stories and then place copyright on them just through a few minor
> > >alterations.  Ok, that's glossing over it in a big way, but it
> > >intrigued and angered me at the time.  I think I was in my early teens
> > >then :-)
> >
> > Yep. And you'll notice that, despite Disney having made a goodly
> > propertion of their money from making films of old tales which are now
> > in the public domain, they have furiously (and successfully) lobbied to
> > have the copyright dates extended for longer so that we can't do the
> > same with any of _their_ property, like Mickey Mouse...
> >
> > Aq.
> >
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> Funny you should say that...
> 
> The actual article I was reading is in The Linux Handbook 9 the first

Erm, I don't know where that 9 crept in.  Ignore it ;-)
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