RE: virus: Science must 'push copyright aside'

From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 14:02:48 MST

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    http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html
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    The US Constitution says that copyright exists "to promote the progress
    of science". When copyright impedes the progress of science, science
    must push copyright out of the way.
     
    Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in 1984 to
    develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for 'GNU's Not Unix'),
    and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost.
    GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it,
    as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system,
    combining the GNU system and the Linux kernel, has an estimated 17 to 20
    million users. Stallman was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in
    1990.

    Copyright 2001 Richard Stallman.

    Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire article are permitted
    in any medium provided the copyright notice and this notice are
    preserved.
    </snip>

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