On Sat, 07 May 2005 00:20:48 -0500, Leonard Martin wrote:

In article .com,
"Chris" wrote:
....
And as for me, I'll "pay for my pleasures", and have my employers and
customers pay for theirs, not so much because I can afford to light my
cigars with $100 bills as that's just the right way to do it. You
know, the right thing to do? Like, ethics and honesty and all that? I
know it seems obsolete in these times, but some of us (at least as many
Blue as Red) still feel that way.


Copyright is fine. Patents are fine. But their continual extension, both
in time and ambit, at the behest of lobbyists for big corporations just
contributes to the increasing concentration of assets in fewer and fewer
hands.

Remember the Golden Rule: The guy who's got the Gold makes the Rules.
--
The Pig Bladder from Uranus