Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!jans
From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Re: ./etc/APPLE.  No Free Software for Mac users.
Message-ID: <4009@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 88 17:20:04 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<<..I wish that we did not attempt to view intellectual property in the same 
light as material belongings...>>

<If you... only have your intellectual properties to sell... you would need to 
see those properties protected at least as well as material belongings.  
Without such protection, publishers would eat while you starved...>

I think this is currently how it works for 90% of the writers out there!  
One-time payments, usually based on the first year's royalties, which the 
writer doesn't see for up to several years after the work has been done.  Of 
course, once they make a name, they can get an advance against royalties.

Straw poll: of those who make considerable income from writing, how many would 
be comfortable living on your writing income alone?

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