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Re: FSF : lackeys of their corporate masters


From: Martin Dickopp
Subject: Re: FSF : lackeys of their corporate masters
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 13:21:03 +0200
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Stefaan A Eeckels <tengo@DELETEMEecc.lu> writes:

> The idea behind copyrights and patents (protected trademarks are
> something different) is to make it worthwhile to produce "goods"
> that can be reproduced at low cost. If you cannot get a reasonable
> compensation for producing a book, an opera, or a computer
> program because of unbridled copying, then you will probably
> decide you need a day job to support you (like sitting at the
> till in a Pick'n Pay :-). It is fairly obvious that today, the
> system is out of kilter, but it's equally obvious that the 
> availability of cheap reproduction makes it impossible to
> produce certain (maybe desirable) reproducible goods.

Maybe I'm missing something, but the latter is not obvious to me at all.
What goods are impossible to produce due to cheap reproduction?

Martin

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