[Thousand-oaks-pm] Richard Stallman¹s dystopian view of the future

Leonard Cuff lcuff2 at yahoo.com
Sat May 21 10:05:06 PDT 2011


I did read it, and had very mixed feelings. On the one had, sure, I want to
copy and paste from an ebook to make notes, send pithy quotes to a friend or
blog about. On the other hand, if the whole thing can be copied, it becomes
free when some hacker posts it.  We need a sophisticated digital rights
management scheme for text so that people can get paid for their text.  That
was one of Ted Nelson¹s main idea when he invented the idea of hypertext
(and project Xanadu) back in the 1960s.  Today¹s web is still nowhere close
to realizing that idea.

Stallman¹s dystopic view of having to pay for much of what we read might
come to pass. Is it such a bad thing for authors to get paid for their work?
I don¹t think so.

Leonard


On 5/21/11 9:48 AM, "shawn faison" <faison09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone read this?  I thought it was interesting and relevant enough to
> open source programming, so I wanted to pass it on.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
> 
> 
> Shawn
> 
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