Dragaera

Artificial release dates and online publishing

Tue Dec 10 23:58:07 PST 2002

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com>
> >>
> >> I would respect Intellectual property Laws a lot more if they
> >> expired in a reasonable fashion, that is to say if everything got
> >> released to the public domain after 7 - 10 - even 15 years the world
> >> would be a richer place for the human efforts put forth. But no,
> >> it's not the case people feel the need to strangle every last dime
> >> out of a piece of media/software.
> >
> > Well, Jhereg was published in 1983. Do you want to tell Steve that we
> > get to publish our own editions of it?
>
> What is the point? I don't want to publish my own edition of Jhereg, if
you
> do you ought to talk to Steve.

If his copyright expired at say, 20 years, then next year I wouldn't have to
talk to Steve.

I could just take it.

I don't think Steve would want to talk to me after that.

-Scott