In 1992 William Gibson, the famous "Cyberpunk" author wrote a short story/porm entitled "Agrippa". 'Agrippa' was released on a limited edition encrypted diskette that erased itself page by page as you read. The book itself contained artwork by Dennis Ashbrough, a painter from New York, related to the content of the poem (such as advertising posters from the 1920s). It was made using a special ink that disappeared after prolonged exposure to light.
As such, this artwork never made it into electronic form and after searching for years I have come to the conclusion that this artwork will never be on a website anywhere:(
Abolishing copyrights would have a *very* negative affect on the GPL cause as a whole. If a companies IP rights arent guarded by law, why would they release their proprietary code under any license which allows possible competitors to "steal" their ideas and start making money off them ? Its all about protecting income. My opinion is that this would drive companies to go to even greater lengths to protect their investment in their code, not open-source it.
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In 1992 William Gibson, the famous "Cyberpunk" author wrote a short story/porm entitled "Agrippa". 'Agrippa' was released on a limited edition encrypted diskette that erased itself page by page as you read. The book itself contained artwork by Dennis Ashbrough, a painter from New York, related to the content of the poem (such as advertising posters from the 1920s). It was made using a special ink that disappeared after prolonged exposure to light.
:(
As such, this artwork never made it into electronic form and after searching for years I have come to the conclusion that this artwork will never be on a website anywhere
Abolishing copyrights would have a *very*
negative affect on the GPL cause as a whole.
If a companies IP rights arent guarded by law,
why would they release their proprietary code
under any license which allows possible competitors
to "steal" their ideas and start making money off
them ? Its all about protecting income. My
opinion is that this would drive companies to go
to even greater lengths to protect their investment
in their code, not open-source it.