Sender: •••@••.••• (Sandra Bernstein) Cyber Rights don't include the right to steal. Are you saying it's all right to steal a television set because you're unlikely to take advantage of the manufacturer's warranty? If you do intellectual work for a living, are you saying your employer no longer has to pay you, provided the results work perfectly? If so, I have some work around my office and that needs doing, and you can come around Thursday at 10:00 am and do it for free. Sandra Bernstein >Sender: Nick Coffey <•••@••.•••> > >I would like to organize some advocacy for the position that >we should all boycott software manufacturers that prosecute >copyright violations and license breach of contracts. > >The basic position is that the software provider should provide >good enough support that anyone truly using the program would >want to register. > ********************************************************* Sandra Bernstein •••@••.••• http://www.inforamp.net/~sandrab/home.htm ********************************************************* ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by -- Andrew Oram -- •••@••.••• -- Cambridge, Mass., USA Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) World Wide Web: http://jasper.ora.com/andyo/cyber-rights/cyber-rights.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~hwh6k/public/cyber-rights.html FTP: ftp://jasper.ora.com/pub/andyo/cyber-rights You are encouraged to forward and cross-post messages and online materials, pursuant to any contained copyright & redistribution restrictions. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
