but do you keep a copy of The Hitchhiker's GUide in the car as well?? ;-)
Harold Federow
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Tabor [mailto:ket354[_at_]yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:00 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: The good fight
I am trying to figure out if it is odd that so many
caught that joke, or that so many missed it.
My wife still doesn't understand why I keep a towel in
the trunk of my car.
Keith
PS: I was relieved that Chris Mohr understood,
otherwise it may have been taken as rude.
- Harold Federow <HaroldF[_at_]bsquare.com> wrote:
> So long and thanks for all the fish ;-)
>
> Harold Federow
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Grierson [mailto:kgrierson[_at_]wilsav.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:28 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: The good fight
>
>
> Anybody notice that all the dolphins are missing?
>
> >>> chrismohr[_at_]sprintmail.com 09/18/02 07:15AM >>>
> ROFLMAO, Keith. Salut.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> [mailto:owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org]
> On Behalf Of Keith Tabor
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: The good fight
>
> Without knowing the question, I would think the
> answer
> has to be exactly 42.
>
> Keith
>
> --- Chris Mohr <chrismohr[_at_]sprintmail.com> wrote:
> > So, the answer to my question is roughly 7.2
> > million.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org
> > [mailto:owner-cni-copyright[_at_]cni.org]
> > On Behalf Of RCumbow[_at_]GrahamDunn.com
> > Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:25 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: RE: The good fight
> >
> > Saying that a ditch and a book should have the
> same
> > economic value
> > simply because each one took one person three
> months
> > takes an awful lot
> > out of the economic equation. It's like saying
> > there's no difference
> > between cleaning out the garage and performing
> > life-saving brain
> > surgery, simply because each one takes one person
> > six hours to do.
> > Robert C. Cumbow
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sstouden[_at_]thelinks.com
> > [mailto:sstouden[_at_]thelinks.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:25 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: The good fight
> >
> > While I am estatic that the entire very elite
> > intellectual property
> > community will provide support, the point in the
> > ditch digger example,
> > is
> > that if it takes 3 man months to create one ditch
> > and it takes 3 man
> > months to create one book, the effort of the ditch
> > digger is the same as
> >
> > the effort of the book writer and therefore each
> > should be paid but one
> > time from one buyer for the effort. The very idea
> > that the 1 man 1
> > effort gets paid a million or more times via the
> > vehicle of a monopoly
> > is
> > patently wrong.
> > Next, the is argument of CO-kit entitlement.
> > CO_KIT is a product
> > of human endeavor and as such cannot be gated from
> > the eyes and ears of
> > the rest of humanity because that gate violates
> the
> > inherent right of
> > man
> > to the benefits of the CO-KIT of the society in
> > which they live during
> > their life time.
> > If you or the intellectual property community were
> > to
> > decide otherwise, then It would be difficult to
> see,
> > why humans should
> > subject themselves to the top down rule of law.
> > Mercantislists cannot
> > have it both ways: either citizens agree to the
> rule
> > of law and society
> > makes available all of its CO-KIT in completely
> > ungated form; or humans
> > each standand alone, one against the other, the
> one
> > with the most power
> > uses the forces of government to gate, harrass and
> > economically exploit
> > the other.
> > The history of copyright and monopolies has been
> > that a few empowered
> > people exploit the masses of the people and they
> use
> > the rule of law
> > backed up by the power of a government with
> military
> > and police forces
> > to
> > make sure the exploitation is effective.
> > There is no room in a free society for monopoly!
> > sterling.
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Dodi Schultz wrote:
> > >
> > > Sterling writes,
> > >
> > > >> A ditch digger's ditch is not different
> than
> > a author's book...
> > It is
> > > >> economically unfair to pay the ditch
> > digger(compensation) once
> > and
> > > >> the author(royalty) many times.
> > >
> > > You know, on further thought, I've been
> persuaded
> > that you're
> > absolutely
> > > right. A digger's ditch is every bit as
> creative,
> > and deserving of
> > suitable
> > > compensation--and protection--as my book, poem,
> or
> > article. Royalties
> > > should be paid, and unauthorized copying
> > prohibited. Any attempt by
> > some
> > > wannabe digger to pass off an imitative ditch as
> > an original earthwork
> >
> > > should be prosecuted to the full extent of the
> > law, with the support
> > of the
> > > entire intellectual property community.
> > >
> > > --Dodi Schultz
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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