Re: books

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Commander RV Ramani proclaimed:
> notwithstanding this there seems to be too much hoo haa
> about IPR especially amongst linux users!

Because the GPL was a license to end restrictive IPR copyrights of
software.

> ...given a choice they would charge
> us for looking at a painting and listening to good music...

Who would charge us?  The linux users?

> I read platos republic for free downloaded from the net...and am sure plato
> would have approved...

The copyrights on many works of literature have expired.  Project Gutenberg
is an effort to put up all such works whose copyright has expired on the
net.

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