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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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 Nelson’s main idea when he invented the idea of hypertext (and project Xanadu) back in the 1960s. Today’s web is still nowhere close to realizing that idea.<BR>
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Stallman’s 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 don’t think so.<BR>
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Leonard<BR>
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On 5/21/11 9:48 AM, "shawn faison" <<a href="faison09@gmail.com">faison09@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Has anyone read this? I thought it was interesting and relevant enough to open source programming, so I wanted to pass it on.<BR>
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html</a><BR>
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Shawn<BR>
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