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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Club Mac, Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS POLICIES
Message-ID: <1968@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 13 Jul 90 17:19:12 GMT
References: <5122@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> <1421@pta.oz.au>
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In article <1421@pta.oz.au> major@pta.oz.au (Major) writes:
>geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Geoff Goodfellow) writes:
>
>>[Mitch Kapor asked me to post the following]
>>NEW FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED TO ENCOURAGE COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONS
>>POLICIES
>
>If Mitch is so concerned to protect freedom of 'communication in
>the electronic age' poerhaps he could start by pressing on his
>company (Lotus) to stop sueing enveryone who thinks that 'P' is
>a good command for 'Print you spreadsheet'.
>
>The man's hypocracy is astounding!

What a sweeping statement! Don't blame Kapor for Lotus' sharp legal counsel.
Until someone comes up for a case to destroy petty cases of alleged 'look and
feel' piracy, lawyers will get rich from the workload.

The biggest problem I see is that information as a resource and commodity will
be controlled by a cartel of information services worldwide. When this
control is established, then anyone who keeps independent records of information
will be labelled a pirate.

Governments haven't caught up with the industrial revolution, how can you expect
them to keep up with the information revolution?

Today, the play is being made for the minds of the children of the information
revolution. Are there any underground movements for the truly free exchange
of information? Certainly USENET and ACSnet don't offer such freedom.

Jason Haines