[sldev] The criminalization of open source

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Mon Dec 17 20:05:19 PST 2007


Gordon Wendt wrote:
> I agree, and that's why I've been arguing vehemently over this even 
> with Torley against the panic mongering crowd pushing the issue.  
> Unfortunately since they are trying to social engineering it to make 
> it seem like a huge bug (they reversed my change to feature request) 
> based on the fact that they would rather false security LL seems 
> content to pander to their ilk.
>
"The best we can hope for is to provide a way to allow content creators 
to express their intent to facilitate any legal actions they chose to 
bring." -- Zha Ewry

Do you guys disagree with this concept? That regardless of the technical 
reality, there is something to be said for providing SOME level of 
inconvenience for people who wish to copy things outside the boundaries 
of the creator's intent?



Lawson


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