On Jan 25, 11:46=A0pm, "Bill Buckels"  wrote:

> All this talk of spending $200.00 per year to maintain a copyright sounds
> like laisse-faire crap to me, and has no place in the world of artists an=
d
> authors.

Agreed. Imagine the havoc this would wreak upon the Free Software/Open
Source community for starters.

> Software shouldn't be covered by Copyright anyway but we're stuck with th=
at
> now.

I don't know that I'd go that far. I'd just be happy if we could get
past the hopelessly naive neocon malarky such as "Copyright
infringement =3D Theft" or "anyone who wants to see things change is a
pirate/thief".

Unforunatley that kind of nonsense tends to drag the level of the
conversation back the late 1800's, and ensures that yet again nothing
constructive happens :-(

Matt
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