RE: [ga] Reminder: Deadline for WIPO-RFC2 (2000-12-29)

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

I disagree Harald,

The eventual battleground is the courtroom and the various legislatures
around the world. You will never convince "them". What you are trying to do
is remove the strength of their argument. At least, not give them ways to
enforce theirs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:Harald@Alvestrand.no]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 12:11 AM
To: Andy Gardner; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] Reminder: Deadline for WIPO-RFC2 (2000-12-29)


At 11:38 04/12/2000 -0600, Andy Gardner wrote:
>And let's keep it that way.
>
>If you're going to ambush your enemy at the pass, you don't send some
>troops forward to meet them early and hand them a copy of the battle plan.
>
>In wartime, you shoot people for passing information to the enemy.

some of us believe that the simile of war is inappropriate; among other 
things, we have to live together with the persons on the other side for a 
long time to come, since people rarely end up dead in this discussion.

however, this being an information age conflict, all that we HAVE to 
"shoot" is information, and the ultimate "kill" is to convince your 
opposition that he is misguided and should change his approach.

shooting someone for passing bullets into the enemy? not likely.


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