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[FYI] Worldwide Copyrights a Quagmire?
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- Subject: [FYI] Worldwide Copyrights a Quagmire?
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:07:20 +0200
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Worldwide Copyrights a Quagmire?
By Declan McCullagh
2:00 a.m. May 16, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Richard Stallman has a simple message for the U.S.
government about a proposed copyright treaty: Don't even think about
signing it.
Stallman, the bearded, irascible creator of GNU Emacs and a spokesman
for the free software movement, showed up at a U.S. Copyright Office
roundtable on Tuesday to warn that the draft measure would imperil
American programmers by encouraging frivolous software patents.
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