[OT] Where ill conceived copyright laws can lead

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Thu Oct 11 19:44:51 EDT 2012


On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

>> Or put it yet another way. Since Solomon coined the phrase, "There's nothing new under the sun", shouldn't we all be
>> paying his descendants royalties on every idea we have?
> 
> Well, there are conspiracy theorists who basically claim we do . . .
> 
> In a lighter vein, you've seen the list of reasons God was denied
> tenure at the university, haven't you?  From memory . . .
> 
> 1) OK, he created the world, but what has he done recently?
> 2) He is accused of destroying the evidence when an experiment went poorly.
> 3) He only has one publication.
> 4) it was in an obscure language.
> 5) some folks question whether he wrote it himself.
> 
> -- 
> Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

Interesting argument for paying tithes. Maybe it's just royalties to God. ;-)

Bob





More information about the use-livecode mailing list