[Fsfe-france] Lengthy but very interesting article "Why we oppose intellectual property"

[Laurent Guerby]

<http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1558584.php>

Full of interesting facts and quote from the birth
of copyright to now.

Might be worth linking (or copying on FSF web sites)
if not already done.

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[...] The success of the GNU/Linux operating system and of the 
free-software movement have offered concrete examples of the possibility 
of building a system of creation and innovation where remuneration is 
not the main stimulus and where the collective interest in freely 
enjoying human culture is more important than the commercial 
exploitation of ideas. Of course the objection that the authors would 
remain deprived of sustenance and would have to do dirty non-purely 
creative jobs remained. Yet Richard Stallman's example, who gave up 
being a programmer who sooner or later would be forced to submit himself 
to companies for the role of conference panelist and independent 
technical advisor, or, better yet, the example of George Gershwin, who 
earned his living as a pianist and conductor, playing his own 
compositions, before he guarantee the sustenance for the next three 
generations of his family, show that a life without copyrights is indeed 
possible. [...]


by Pablo Ortellado Thursday January 09, 2003 at 10:33 AM
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