Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 11:02 am In article , david.golden@oceanfree.net says... > Randy Howard wrote: > > > In your loose analogy, Ford, GM, BMW, etc. would be > > the one complaining about the copy of the car, not you. > > Hey, so do music distribution monopoly holders now that their monopolies > are unenforceable. It's amusing how quickly these anti-IP types so quickly turn from their specious moralistic claims to the threat of force. > In my country's history, thousands of people are recorded to have > died in the battle of Cul Dreimne against the world's first recorded > copyright law. Not true. Since Columcille copied the book azs secretively as any pirate, he must have assumed that his act would be judged illegal if discovered. So this was a case of copyright theft in defiance of existing if unwritten law. (In reality, of course, more important political issues were probably dominant.) - Gerry Quinn .