Re: Open Source Article

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

I've got a feeling most of the LUGs in the country will have received this
- looks like a real spam to me :(

Cheers,

Alex.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Richard wrote:

> Hello
> 
> The following came to me through enquiries [at] sheflug.co.uk.  You don't
> want to read it but if you do then you are an MS Windows user......
> 
> 
> >>r: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 62 X-Status: N Status: R Return-Receipt-To:<<<<
> 
> This was in the header :-(
> 
> and so he says.......
> 
>  Hi, I write an Internet Business Law column for
> Internet.com's Boardwatch magazine . I'm writing a series of articles
> on open source and I'd like to get community feedback for my next
> article dealing with the question below. Can you post this or email
> your group members? If they want to respond or comment they can do so
> by emailing me at . I'll review responses until March 31, 2000, the
> deadline for the article. I expect the article will appear in the June
> magazine and online in July. I'd like to hear dissenting views as much
> as those that agree. Best regards, Tony >>>> QUESTION: I believe that
> Open Source is a very important freedom movement, because, like
> Harvard's Professor Lessig says, code is law, but with a non-human
> police force. With closed code, we'll all be prisoners in the very
> near future. So I believe that code MUST be open. But can anyone tell
> me why software can't be both open and sold like Windows? Why is it
> that software has to be basically given away if it's open? I'm not
> sure that anyone in Open Source has ever answered this
> question. It just seems to be assumed without any critical analysis.
> Why can't Open Source developers get a royalty percentage of the sale
> price just like writers, recording artists or movie actors, and the
> product sold just like Windows is through traditional channels, so
> that the developers get paid for their work? 
> 
> 
> I should point out that for law you should strike out that word and
> put either state law or federal law.  Anyone who knows anything about
> international law and the internet wouldn't write this kind of thing
> to send to a discusionm list of this sort.  I *have* read law for
> twenty years.
> 
> 
> This is very much like the sort of mail that I've seen the FBI send to
> many discussion lists in the States.
> 
> His e-mail address is......
> 
> tonstanco [at] aol.com
> 
> Perhaps you should remember to flush the toilet afer using it ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
> 
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