Improving Copyright (was: Re: Copyright T-Shirt)

[João Miguel Neves]

A Qua, 2004-05-12 às 22:31, Niall Douglas escreveu:
> On 12 May 2004 at 16:19, Jo=E3o Miguel Neves wrote:
> 
> > I've never seen such a system work. They're always pieces of art that
> > are ignored by such systems and it usually puts to much power in the
> > hands of those deciding what is a work under copyrgiht.
> 
> Such a system would fail if encumbered with government intervention. 
> Consider sourceforge as an example of what I mean - people upload 
> projects and people download them. Most projects on sourceforge will 
> only ever be of minority interest and probably half will be near 
> useless due to lack of quality or attention.

I don't see any government creating a sourceforge... but that's just me.
> > Technically impossible to do. This conclusion is a result of my work
> > with the National Library of Portugal. We don't have the resources to
> > manage that.
> 
> We could end world hunger tomorrow if enough political will was 
> present. There is certainly no technical reason why not.
> 
Just the cost of logistics that noone ever agreed to pay for...

> Same goes with the system I outlined.
> 
Not really. I can see how that would work with an improved
(highly-scalable) bittorrent tracker. My issue is that something like
bittorrent doesn't guarantee the existence (preservation) of the works
(maybe I'm just affected from working in a Library and that's not an
important issue). 

> > > I doubt free software as the FSF defines it will last the course. It
> > My bank account disagrees with you when you say free software is not
> > sustainable, but who cares?
> 
> You are one of a very tiny minority. I would regard myself as
> technically pretty capable yet I couldn't earn a living working like 
> you do because I don't possess the necessary social skills such as 
> gracefully tolerating idiots and naturally networking with the right 
> people.
> 
Those were all acquired skills for me. It was hard, but worth it.
Realising that we're all idiots at some point helps in the tolerating
part.

> Of the people I know who do make a living from free software, they 
> are either employed by someone like RedHat and are of outstanding 
> quality in the technical field or they aren't particularly technical 
> at all but are great organisers and naturally build contacts easily.
> 
Maybe I could fall in the technical part, but I'd have my doubts of
calling myself "outstanding". And the organiser part is way off.

> A good proportion of people just want to be told what to do at their 
> jobs so they can serve their 9 to 5 and get money. These people are 
> fundamentally unsuited to working with free software which demands a 
> high degree of self-leadership. Another good proportion like me lack 
> key non-technical "soft" skills. All together we make up an
>  overwhelming proportion of the workforce which hence leads to my 
> assertion that free software is not sustainable in its current form.
> 
Those people don't care about if it's free software or not. And there
are already an interesting number of companies using free software.

-- 
						João Miguel Neves


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