On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:18:59 EST, "Byron L. Sonne" said: > I'm sure if the copyright lobby had their way, they'd require us to wear > special glasses in order to see our laptop screens, on the assumption > that anything not explicitly licensed was assumed to be unlicensed, and > thus pirated, which we would be blocked from our field of view... and as > a result, some girl/guy who wants to write a simple freeware text editor > now has to jump through regulatory hoops and spend money to obtain a > special registration that allows their text editor to display to the > screen. This is a cheesy example, but I think it makes the point. Stallman was about 15 years ahead of you: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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