18 Mar
2008
18 Mar
'08
10:39 p.m.
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Alexandre Souza wrote:
things and everyone get happy. Do you think someone
will make a list like:
file.pdf 102941 bytes copied from bitsavers
file2.pdf 102384 bytes copied from sellam ismail
file3.pdf 10938 bytes copied from msx.org who copied from speccy.org
who copied from tabajara labs
I would contribute to help such a site.
Hey people, why do you do the work? For personal
promotion or to help
people like you who needed this info sometime and didn't found it?
"The purpose of the internet is for the free sharing and exchange of other
people's intellectual property." ?
Wanna see me mad? Charge ANYTHING for my free
info. You'll have a very
mad man looking for you
THAT is a good argument for attribution and copyright.
If you own the copyright, then YOU ('sposedly) control it and can make it
free and prevent others from charging for it.
If there is no attribution and copyright, then you have NO control over
whether somebody else can charge for it. That is one reason why Richard
Stallman has draconian copyright provisions. (You may not use ANYTHING of
his if you include it in ANYTHING that will be sold - you may not copy one
of his subroutines into a commercial product.)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com