[Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora

Avi Kivity avi at argo.co.il
Fri Feb 23 20:53:43 UTC 2007


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:34 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
>>     
>>>> Because that also means that I control what is done with my code.  You 
>>>> make it sound like all ideas should be in the public domain.
>>>>         
>>> That is the natural order of things. "Information wants to be free" is
pretty
>>> sound economics. Copyright and friends exist[ed] to motivate people to 
>>> behave in a way that benefitted society.
>>>       
>> It's completely off-topic, but still...
>>
>> I am not completely sure about that (at least for art). In France, there 
>> is a kind of property right which tie a piece of work to the author in a 
>> very specific way. It cannot be abandonned or transfered (although
>> strangely it is possible to fake the author). It is called le 'droit
>> moral'. It covers the right to divulgate to public or not, right to be
>> recognized as the author, right to enforce respect on the piece of art
>> and the right to remove the piece of art from the commercial circuit. 
>> The jurisprudence may limit in fact that right.
>>     
>
> And yet, amazingly, it is all just a convention between people,
> information itself is abstract and you can't physically own it no matter
> how hard you try.
>
> Law may declare the world is flat, that doesn't change the physical
> nature of the world, it may decree the end of your life if you dissent
> though ...
>   

Physical ownership is as much a fiction as information ownership.  
There's no physical law that says that just because you gave a 
shopkeeper some green pieces of paper, I can't take your new iPod when 
you aren't looking [1].  It's just a convention that allows society to work.

[1] Or even if you are looking.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to
panic.

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