[Upd-discuss] Paper:"Digital property" By Sabine Nuss, NY, NY, April 12-14, 2002

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

Sabine Nuss' email: <sabine.nuss@prokla.de>

--- "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Totally aside from the article's conclusions, which I have not yet
> read and have no opinion about, it starts with a serious confusion:
> applying the name "copyleft" to something which is not copyleft.
> 
> Copyleft does not mean the freedom to redistribute copies.  The name
> refers to a specific kind of license condition, which permits modified
> versions but only under the same license.
> 
> Can you please forward this to the lists
> lib-info-society@yahoogroups.com, lib-plic@yahoogroups.com, and
> rekombinant@liste.rekombinant.org, since I am not on them?  And can
> you please find me a way to contact Sabine Nuss, so I can ask her
> to add this correction in a footnote?
> 
> The article also tries to treat copyright and patents as a single
> issue, using the term "intellectual property" to refer to both.  This
> tends to carry bias and confusion; for more explanation about this, see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml.
> 
> It also refers to the popular version of the GNU system as "Linux".
> 
> It is ironic that a Marxist would share the propensity of Capitalists
> to view these issues primarily in terms of their economic effects.  In
> effect, they put their basic values in the same limited subspace, and
> disagree only in which directions they consider positive and which
> they consider negative.
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