[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 61, Issue 12

[John Olsen]

On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:01 PM, clipart-request at lists.freedesktop.org  
wrote:

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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:18:23 +0400
> From: Oleg Koptev <koptev.oleg at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Clipart] ?????:  Offtopic Commentary:
> 	FSF/MS/Proprietary/FreeSpeech
> To: chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com>
> Cc: "clipart at lists.freedesktop.org" <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
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> Hello chovynz!
>
> Greatly impressed by your thoughts.
> You right in part of that big companies frequently use power of money
> to play unfairly. But..
> martyrs?? who the hell might force you to eat hamburger in McDonalds
> only, or drink Coca-Cola instead of Pepsi (NB: I prefer pure cold
> water)?
> More and more people come to conception of open source in many spheres
> of life - software, music, art and so on.
>
> For example - today earning money by selling Audio CD at incredible
> high prices is doomed decision. You mention before TPB (pirate bay) -
> this is one of legion of the torrent sites, where I can found very
> good rip of my likely group in lossless. But instead of that I prefer
> to buy CDs - with polygraphy, booklet and so on. On the other hand -
> often original CDs come in very small edition or/and in very high
> price (+delivery by post high too). So I forced to download that
> albums from torrents for example.

I really doubt that FORCE is involved in your decision to download  
pirated copies of music.  The choice is yours.  Piracy of things  
people chose to retain copyright on is a avery different concept then  
a community of people who are by choice giving up copyright freely.

John Olsen