[lojban] Re: News about Le Petit Prince

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:44:37PM -0500, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:52:19PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:48:01PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:14:02AM +0200, J?r?me Desquilbet
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > That being said, http://www.utopia.com.br/esperanto/eta/
> > > > > is still there on the Internet...
> > > > 
> > > > Between the fact that Brazil is a Berne convention country
> > > > and the fact that that book has an ISBN, I'm pretty sure
> > > > they had permission.
> > > 
> > > Almost certainly they had permission for the _printed_
> > > edition. Here they have it in some thirty different languages:
> > > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/1916/online.html
> > 
> > Quite frankly, that kind of blatant disregard for other people's
> > wishes rather disgusts me.  Or at least it would of the author
> > was still alive; as it is it only bothers me.
> 
> How fascist of you.  The free spread of information should not be
> subject to the wishes of any individual or corporation.

How flower child of you.  I like people to get money for what they
do.

> You're worrying about a nonimportant issue.

Maybe, but as the Secretary of the LLG, it's my job.  You all want
to go do this, go do it, but I'm going to rant every single time it
comes up in my hearing.

-Robin

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