It's always been quite ironic

Post #49,100 by tjsinclair 8/12/02 4:46:21 PM Reply	It's always been quite ironic That Disney, one of the biggest backers of mandatory DRM technology and infinitely receding copyright periods, built their empire on public domain works. Tom Sinclair "Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
Post #49,121 by Ashton 8/12/02 8:19:33 PM Reply	Trouble is.. I never heard the author of the comment, "there are only eight plots for a story" (and prolly any one of us could fill them in - with only slight variance ?? if we tried) The Greeks did a pretty good job of making Epics of about each one. Ovid pretty well cooled 'romance'. Etc. But I see your point - Disney is about as innovative as the Beast AND they already DID that one! Beauty and Der Beast. Still and all.. our Primary food group here is, Saccharine. Y'know? Ashton
Post #49,168 by ben_tilly 8/13/02 6:43:51 AM Reply	No irony at all Having done it themselves, who better to understand the value of the public domain? They just have no wish to give potential competitors that leg up. Cheers, Ben Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)

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