Why linux is not ready for the desktop Was: Whats with X

Sat, 3 May 2003 00:26:03 -0700 (MST)

Am 02. May, 2003 schw=E4tzte Ted Gould so:

> The problem in copyright law is when the length of time that copyrights
> last is pushed out further and further.  Ideally things should go into
> the public domain at some time (which would be interesting, because then

"public domain" means that it can be used w/o restriction and there is no
copyright, right? Thus it's the current *BSD license w/o the copyright
clause?

> it would seem that at some point the GPL becomes indefensible for
> unmaintained projects...).  Mostly this has been fought with books and
> movies, where the publishers are interested in keeping rights on those
> materials forever.  There was a publisher in England that was claiming
> copyright on Shakespeare (fortunately they lost in court).

Well, Disney keeps winning copyright protections for Grimms' Fairy Tales...

ciao,

der.hans
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