Re: [Fsfe-uk] Fw: IP Charter debate

[Graham Seaman]

MJ Ray wrote:

>Not sure what I think about this. How about you?
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The list of people involved is seriously impressive:
http://www.ipcharter.org/group.asp

but in spite of the fact that I think many are admirable as individuals
- and have a long track record, they're not band-wagon jumpers - I can't
help feeling that the agenda that has built up round them is not
complementary to the FSF's, but alternative. And that in some ways I
agree with the FSF more than them; in other ways they are clearly in the
right, but the emerging gulf is in large part a fault of the FSF's
tactics, and rms's refusal until quite recently to consider anything
outside software seriously. So we have for example John Sulston
apparently following Lessig/Love's agenda etc.

rms would actually be about the only person of similar stature we have -
but he clearly couldn't be part of this organisation.

I'd like to discuss this topic more, but don't know whether this is the
right list!?

Graham

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>>From: "Andres Guadamuz" <address@hidden>
>>Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:24:29 +0100
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>>The Intellectual Property Charter: Special Debate - Time for action!
>>RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ, Thursday 14 July at 6pm
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>>The media are full of stories of crises in copyright and patents, from
>>teenagers being fined 3000 for downloading music that they believed to be
>>legal to millions of people suffering from AIDS because they can't afford
>>patented drugs.
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