RMS at U of T Monday

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:27:11AM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> I went and it was good. Last time I saw Richard Stallman was in 1989
> when he gave a talk in Boston, MA. My impression is that the man has
> mellowed a bit, or just gotten a bit older :-) .
> 
> How does a 10 year copyright sound to everyone?

Could be interesting.  Would certainly keep up with the pace of
development better.  I guess music people would have to keep making new
stuff if they wanted copyright royalties, although I think they make
most moeny from concerts anyhow, so no difference there.

Lots of books seem to be hard to find once they are a few years old, so
even if you want to buy a copy you can't.  So the publishers are
larhgely just sitting on a copyright and preventing access to the
material even from people that would pay them money.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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