Re: Design principles and ethics

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 03/05/2006 hora 19:50:
> > And do you know what the side-effects are?
> No. I suppose the rich were getting richer on the expense of the poor?

An author could only hope being paid when ordered a work. The only real
way to earn a living as an author was to be under the protection of a
patron.

Which leads to self-censorship, because an author cannot affort to write
something his patron would not agree with.

This was even the introduction argument of our minister of culture when
advocating the DAVDSI law at the parliament (DAVDSI is the transposition
in national law of EUCD, which is the european version of DMCA). It was
somewhat followed by the argument that only DRM could save copyright...

Juridically,
Nowhere man
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