Re: rms article

["Adam 'WeirdArms' Wiggins" <awiggins@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

	I think that it wasn't clear on the problem which further
discussions have made apparent. Ie you can copywrite a design but someone
can redo it and then you have no claim over that derivative work.
	The general feeling I got from the artical though was that
hardware isn't as easy to do as software so freedom relating to it isn't
important. I don't aggree with this. One reconfigurable hardware like
FPGA's is making it easier and two there seems to be a growing interest in
free hardware design development now despite the lack of ease in making
hardware.

	Cheers Adam

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Graham Seaman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been talking to Richard Stallman about the article
> on free hardware designs he wrote for LinuxToday
> (http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/6993.html).
> 
> He asked me why I had the reaction I did to it, and I
> wondered whether what I thought about it was typical, in
> that I found parts of it annoying. I'd feel happier writing
> to him about it if I was surer that anyone else had the
> same feelings. After that great wave of license related
> discussion I've ended up quite confused about what everyone
> thinks. So, does anyone have any comments about
> his article? Especially comments I could pass on [anonymously
> if wanted] ?
> 
> Thanks
> Graham
>