Re: [Fsfe-uk] Young Greens moving on FS

[Martin Wheeler]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Mark Preston wrote:

> A lot of people who support the use 
> of free software would also like to see copyright laws abolished

Could you please quote chapter and verse of your source for that?

It *certainly* doesn't apply to me -- and I'm a ferocious proponent of 
free software.  Indeed, as far as I'm concerned, free software is 
dependent on the very existence of copyright.

Just //where// is this ridiculous idea that free software types are 
anti-copyright coming from?

Is this a total miscomprehension of what free software is all about?
Or just totally muddled thinking, and thoughtless bandwagon-joining?

Whatever the case, it shpould be stomped on RIGHT NOW.

Free software //depends// on the existence of copyright law.  OK?


The blatant abuse and corruption of copyright law for the purposes of 
protecting corporate greed and maintaining a specific model of consumerism 
is a very different affair.
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