[Gllug] Richard Stallman talk

[Richard Clamp]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:36:49AM +0000, Sean Burlington wrote:
> his arguments were clear and cogent 

Pah.  To me it sounded like "How Copyright Should Be by little Richie
Stallman, age six and three-quarters"

I'll give you that they were clear, but they were so oversimplified
and self-serving (you can't copyright software, but go ahead and
copyright works of entertainment, because I don't really deal in
that) that it left me bored senseless and lightly insulted.

I didn't stop for questions, and he seemed concerned that we wouldn't
get our stickers, but did anyone actually point out that the
micropayment model never has worked, and seems less and less likely
that it will.

> call it Gnu/Linux (with a hard G)
> software should be Free
> entertainment works should have 10 year copyright
> (what was the other category?)

There were 3 as I remember.

Utility
Personal Expression
Entertainment

But he handwaved over the last two so much that they merged into one
from where I was sitting.  That and when you put a pint in my hand
I'll easily argue that some programming is all 3, so which set of
rules do I apply?

-- 
Richard Clamp <richardc at unixbeard.net>

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