[nylug-talk] Free Junk - is Apache ready for the enterprise

[joe]

At 04:05 PM 5/1/2003 -0400, a list member wrote privately:

 >Whatever the mods say, let me thank you for everyone for so politely
 >asking what's appropriate for wading in.

That's why I asked. I respect the group and I am a big, though not very 
adept, fan of Linux and the Open Source movement. I am still taming my 
Mozilla, Mandrake, Invision Board Forums, Gallery, etc. but I love 
them.  I'm struggling daily to learn PHP and MySQL.

My intention in inviting discussion on copyright is constructive. The 
moment it becomes a flame war or there are ad hominem attacks, I'm out of 
it. But I see a potential danger in not understanding that their are 
reasonable copyright and content control issues that affect the livelihoods 
of creators who are not major conglomerates.

In fact, I am very much involved in battles against some of the very same 
mega-entities. On one hand, the position that members of this list see, 
those companies are highly aggressive in their protection of their 
copyrights. But the battles in which I'm involved seek protection for the 
independent creator (writers, photographers, etc.) against equally 
aggressive copyright theft, abuse, economic blackmail and coercion 
campaigns aimed at independent content creators by those every same 
companies.  They have it both ways. They want copyright because it is 
valuable and for the same reason, they will do whatever it takes to steal 
or break the copyright of anyone else.

It would be a shame if mutual revulsion at the actions of those companies 
found each of us   attacking from our respective positions, but using 
extreme arguments that make each other "collateral damage."  We'd both lose.

Anyway, I await approval to continue.

Joe . . . and my own slogan will be:
"Copyright is not theft; theft of copyright is theft."