nice to see the occasional attempt at sanity in such an inside publication.
many nice points about how copyright law is now mainly a tool for
corporations to gain legal leverage against technologies that they simply
want to own (i.e. sueing someone for infringement as a tactic to soften
them for later acquisition).
http://www.tnr.com/cyberspace/hodes120800.html
ok
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