Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FREE Software, PD, and author compensation
Message-ID: <3148@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 23 Dec 88 23:01:29 GMT
References: <12748@cup.portal.com> <3126@sugar.uu.net> <12825@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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> In article <3126@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >In article <12748@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B
> >Hankins) writes:
> >> ...stuff about desire for Berne convention deleted ...

> >This is an interesting argument, since it's saying "You have the rights to
> >your own intellectual property, except that you can't sell it. You can
> >license it or rent it under any terms you like, but you can't sell it."

In article <12825@cup.portal.com>, dan-hankins@cup.portal.com (Daniel B
Hankins) writes:
>      No, that's not what I'm saying.

No, but that's what the Berne Convention is saying. That's the only part
of your discussion I excerpted, and that's all I'm talking about.

> I never said that it was *wrong* to
> sell software or that it should be unlawful to sell software.

And I never said you did. I just have a problem with the Berne Convention
because I feel it will erode the market for my labor by making my work
relatively less valuable to an employer and that of an independant contractor
relatively more valuable. I am leary of the government's efforts to help
me against the evil businesspeople, because in the past such efforts have
made people's lots worse, not better.

Now, if someone can clarify just what the Berne Convention does or does not
say and/or imply about "Work for Hire", maybe we can make some progress
before this turns into a flame fest.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net