19 Sep
2000
19 Sep
'00
7:48 p.m.
The tone of that article really annoys me. The idea seems to be to blur
the distinction between sharing your own work (obviously laudable) and
sharing someone else's work without their permission (obviously unethical,
and folks generally knew that even in 1975). It also tries to oversimplify
all the complex debates that are going on right now into a simple black
and white question of whether or not there should be copyrights.
Tim Mann tim.mann(a)compaq.com http://www.tim-mann.org
Compaq Computer Corporation, Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA