!@!Re: [Upd-discuss] Response from Sabine Nuss to Stallman Re: Paper:"Digital property" By Sabine Nuss, NY, NY, April 12-14, 2002

[Richard M. Stallman]

I wrote:

    > I was talking about different ways that capitalist societies can be
    > organized.  Consider the US in the 1920s, the US in 1940, the US in
    > 1960, the US in 1975, and the US today.  All capitalist, but quite
    > different variants of capitalism, with different positions on
    > many issues.  Copyright is one of the issues on which different
    > variants of capitalism can take different positions.

You responded

    However, the position on copyright extensions has always been towards
    longer and longer copyrights, with three power such extensions in the
    last 100 years.

That is true, and it doesn't conflict with what I said.  There has
been a general tendency, in the last few decades, to move towards more
unfair forms of capitalism, which give increased power to business.
Increased copyright length and broader copyright power are examples of
that.  The form of capitalism that we have today is close to fascism.

But I don't think we should condemn all possible kinds of capitalism
because of the abuses of fascism.