Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, was Why open source software is better

[Aaron R. Kulkis]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> 
> In article <90709AC2CNickCondon@132.146.16.23>,
>         nickco3@yahoo.DONT-SPAM-ME.co.uk (Nick Condon) writes:
> >
> > Our system of economics is not well equipped to deal with information.
> > Economics is fundamentally about managing scarcity (for without scarcity
> > there is no need to economise). But information isn't scarce. It can be
> > endlessly copied with depriving anyone else. So the solution they came up
> > with is for the government to artificially impose scarcity through
> > copyright laws .i.e to order the cow to quack. That's madness.
> 
> Not really. The scarcity isn't in the copies, it's in
> the production of the originals. To get a new song,
> you need a poet to write lyrics (for today's songs,
> read: put five words together, three of which are
> "I love you"), a composer to write music (== crib a
> 10 year old hit and add some rapping noises), a
> band to play it (yup, they still have to know how
> to play an instrument), and a singer (any good-looking
> aphone 18 year old will do). Oh, and I forget the
> expensive producers, and the hyper-expensive record
> company executive; I almost left out the add agency.
> In any case, you need to pay all these people, and you
> need to spread the puncture over lots of gullible
> youngsters.
> 
> That's why there's copyright. Imagine, what would the
> world be like without N'Sync and Brittney Spears ;-)

Better....MUCH Better

(Just like we could do without the 1970's equivalent....KISS).


> 
> --
> Stefaan
> --
> How's it supposed to get the respect of management if you've got just
> one guy working on the project?  It's much more impressive to have a
> battery of programmers slaving away. -- Jeffrey Hobbs (comp.lang.tcl)


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I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
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G:  Knackos...you're a retard.


F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
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E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
   her behavior improves.

D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
   ...despite (C) above.
 
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.

B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
   method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
   direction that she doesn't like.

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