From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T06:36:51+09:00
Subject: Re: free pdf ebook

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:19:01AM +0900, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> Hey, we BSDers also exist.  Our "giving away as far as we are able"
> variant works quite well.  Public domain - which is what happens when
> there is no copyright - also seems to work quite well.
> 
> Yes, there is a whole host of people that participate in open source
> under a "I'll live in fear of being exploited"-mindset, and we would
> lose those - at least until they see that things work well anyway.
> Still, copyright is not needed for what we do day to day, and there
> are many projects that get by well more or less without it (and would
> do perfectly without it if there wasn't jurisdictions willing to go
> overboard with implied warranties for public domain work.)

It should probably be pretty obvious by now that I basically agree with
every word of that -- but I figured I'd make it obvious and explicit.

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