[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Dec 2007)

[Vee]

On 21/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> > Anthony wrote:
> > >> Of course what I meant is that actually forcing them to do so would
> be
> > >> equivalent to robbery.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Well, I said they should be forced to make their work free content
> > > only if it can be done legally, which would make it quite distinct
> > > from robbery, which is illegal.
> > >
> > > I find it interesting though that'd you'd equate enforcement of
> > > trademark law to robbery.
> > >
> >
> > There is legal and there is right, and you shouldn't confuse the two.
> >
> I think I've been incredibly careful during this discussion in
> distinguishing between the two.  In my opinion it's always right to
> force someone to release their work under a free license.  Only some
> of the time it's legal, though.
>

Whoa.. that is in no way right. People shouldn't have to release something
they spent time and effort on for free.