[Upd-discuss] Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's,aSeductiveMirage by Richard M. Stallman

[Seth Johnson]

:-)

Nah, I wouldn't make that mistake.

Only the Grokster case in the timeline I presented is not yet or
necessarily a victory -- and I presented that as "in progress,"
so I beg to maintain that I signaled the difference!

But more importantly, it is important to tell a story.  And we do
have some successes to report, even if they don't add up to the
final end.  This is how you mobilize action: show something in
motion.  I just tacked the Grokster case on for rhetorical
purposes.  :-)

I think that we are in a sea change.  We are forcing moves on the
other side of a fundamentally different nature from what they
have had to take before.  The events on that timeline were major
events in bringing about advances on our side that brought on
those moves.  Right after our action at the Commerce Department
on content control in broadband (you participated in that
action), the broadcast flag NPRM was written up so quickly that
all their footnotes were messed up!  :-)  Now look at the
developments on the EU SW Patent front!

I maintain that changes in information freedom politics are
inherently sea changes.  You're interjecting into willfully
privileged tableaus, the power of truth.  Once the tableau is
opened by your intervention, the result is a sea change, even if
the change is not the final victory.


Seth

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 
> It is premature to start thinking that victory is at hand.  We don't
> know which side will win in the Grokster case.  Although the European
> Parliament voted against software patents, the Council of Ministers
> used dirty (perhaps illegal) procedures to reverse that decision;
> it will not be easy for the Parliament to stand against that.
> 
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