From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/18
Date: 1999-10-18T18:44:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8667047ben.fsf@ppp-169-72.villette.club-internet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7uds5f$ljp$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> [...]
> Remember that, following the commerce clause of the
> constitution, the purpose of copyright is to encourage
> creation. It's hard already to get publishers to risk
> doing Ada books, if you insist they all be on line, then
> one possible outcome is that they will all be on line,
> all zero of them, so you have to work for a balance here.
> [...]
The Ada case is a bit special, since 2 Ada books come from work that
were available for free on the net: the book from the "Lovelace"
tutorial and "Ada for C/C++ programmers" which started as a web page.
Also an argument to consider is that if everyone was using copyright
to get the "monopoly" (okay, not the right term) of having something
available on a printed book, there would be no web page and no web at
all! All the information available for free on the web is a proof that
copyright-protected and sold-for-money books are not strictly
necessary to encourage creation.
However as you said, there is a balance to be found there, see Tim
O'Reilly opinions on book publishing on the matter for example.
--LG
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[not found] ` <3802597B.9205AEE8@averstar.com>
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7u86su$o5v$1@nntp8.atl.mindspring.net>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <slrn80fl9f.68j.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Comments Georg Bauhaus
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Comments Ehud Lamm
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Comments Robert I. Eachus
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Jerry van Dijk
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Comments Ted Dennison
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Comments (was: Self-referential types) Wes Groleau
1999-10-23 0:00 ` M.
[not found] ` <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991021191504.30582K-100000@pluto.mscc.huji. <381477c9.e1388ff3@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Self-referential types Larry Kilgallen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-22 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Michel DELARCHE
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-10-12 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-13 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-10-14 0:00 ` Multiple Inheritance in Ada 95 [was Re: Self-referential types] Tucker Taft
1999-10-12 0:00 ` Self-referential types Matthew Heaney
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