Re: reviews? ACM's "Intellectual Property In the Age of Universal Access"

On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, Sam Byassee <sam_byassee[_at_]shmm.com> wrote:
>
> Although Samuelson may tend to navigate some of the more populist
> currents of the mainstream, I don't think she is generally considered
> to be outside of it. The ACM is an organization for computing
> professionals, rather than for the business side of the information
> technology industry, and many of her ACM columns appear intended to
> point out and explain the differences in interests between those two
> groups, as those interests are embodied in policy-making activities on
> the national and international levels. I do agree that her columns
> are some of the most articulate and layperson-accessible generally
> available discussions of these legal issues.

I am not so sure that she really is always in the mainstream. She dropped off of one of the lists that I subscribe to a couple of years ago after continually having her views attacked. In any case, I would hardly call her position on software patents in particular, or indeed the remainder of her Manifesto in general mainstream.

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