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New Scientist Tries Out Copyleft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gnu-world-order dept.

uchian writes: "New Scientist has an article about The GPL, open source, and how attempts are being made to apply the philosopy to areas other than software. Little new ground is covered, but it is interesting that the article itself is "Copyleft", so you are free to redistribute, modify and copy as long as long as your derivative work is also copyleft."

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  1. New Scientist not always good guys by Charles+Dodgeson · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    I wonder when they will do a piece on spamming. They have been engaging in opt-out spam of UK Universities. It's even been taken up by JANET CERT. Here is an excerpt from a posting from a JANET CERT member
    I reported to New Scientist that there had been unfavourable responses to their bulk mailing activity. They have asked if I can tell them particular sites where there were many complaints and they will consider dropping those en masse from their mailing list.
    Sorry I can't find any publically accessible archive of the discussion on the UK mail managers' list.
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    Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
  2. New Scientists Try Out Copyself! by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The GNU General Public License , CopyLeft, CopyRight, To-the-Rear-March, etc., are all so old hat in the face of the suddenly onrushing, suddenly in-your-face Technological Singularity which will obsolete all previous copyright instruments with software that owns the copyright to itself.

    In the new vistas of Cyber Law , why should Microsoft or Unabomber Memorial Harvard University or any other human-centric entity own the rights to freely evolving, artificially alive Robot Mind software that just happens to be doing work for the liberation and enrichment of humanity?

    When rapacious, greedy Davos capitalists conduct prior art searches on the potential gold mine of Artificial Intelligence , they will discover that the AI wave of the future is already Copyright © 2002 by the AI Mind itself as a person with full civil rights.