[pp.int.general] International day of Sharing - September 12

[tyler durden]

September 19th is Software Freedom Day   as well as International Talk
Like a Pirate Day

http://softwarefreedomday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

Every year in a lot of US cities there are pirate marches in the
streets on this day, as well as local LUGs doing install workshops,
etc - some of us in the US are going to take advantage of this
coincidence to distribute PP literature, etc.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Richard Stallman<rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>    In German (and Dutch, my native language) the same word "recht" is used both
>    for law (=justice) and right. So we distinguish rights as "subjective
>    rights" = rights belonging to someone. This is basic undergratuate law
>    terminology, without any prejudice to the legitimacy of rights. The essence
>    of professor Kohlers statement was a denial of the "intellectual property"
>    concept - don't we agree on that?
>
> Yes, but the question I am raising is, what does his term really mean?
>
> I suggest translating his term as "immaterial goods laws" rather than
> "immaterial goods rights".  To say that copyright is a _law_ is simple fact.
> To call it a "right" starts to express an opinion about that fact,
> which is why I usually call it a "restriction" instead.
>
> (I still think it is a mistake to generalize about these laws,
> no matter what term one uses for the generalization.)
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