[NCLUG] Re: Linux World domination (was "Re: NCLUG Digest...", etc.)

James DeWitt jdewitt at verinet.com
Thu Sep 18 23:31:42 MDT 2008


On Thursday 18 September 2008 11:04:51 pm John L. Bass wrote:
> Scott Kleihege wrote:
> > > I did not claim authorship as a natural right, I do claim authorship as
> > > a legal right in the USA. I really don't care about, or care to debate,
> > > that right is not universal on this planet.
> >
> > Straw man fallacy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man].  I was not
> > questioning the "right of authorship", but the right to profit from
> > creative works.  The right to profit from creative works, particularly
> > software, is a political issue under debate in the USA at this point,
> > with active lobbiest groups, including the RIAA, MPAA, and on the
> > other side, the FSF.
>
> The right to profit, is exactly the right secured by copyright. It's the
> right that you can prevent others from giving your work away to deprive
> you from that profit. It's the right to prevent others from profiting
> from your work, and deprive you of the income from your work.
>
> GPL take that one step farther, and uses that same right, to give away
> your work to the public, and prevent others from profiting from it.
>
> Questioning any authors right to profit from their work, *IS*
> questioning the "right of authorship".
>
> So, how about thinking, rather than the personal attacks?

That was a personal attack. Please stop now.

Thanks,
James



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