permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

Evan Schoepke wrote:
> Thanks for the good points all around...
> I think this is a great debate for permaculture that goes way beyond
> this particularity important book and overall very healthy and has lots of
> room for compromises.

No matter how you twist the facts in order to rationalize in your mind the 
taking of someone's
copyrighted work and making it available in unlimited quantities to the 
general public, you
are doing something that is immoral and unethical. You want to convince folks 
that by making an
important literary work available for free you will generate more sales for 
the author.
This seems to me to be pretty flawed reasoning and most folks would question 
your motives from the start,
to say the least. Just because you _think_ you can afford to give everything you own away to anyone you choose doesn't 
give you the right to foist that mindset upon others without asking.

These well chosen and hilarious comments from Kathleen come to mind, if I can 
quit laughing long enough to type Ctrl-V:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: Copyright Infringement on PERMACULTURE: A 
Designers Manual

Violating copyright interferes with Mollison's livelihood and just taking
something you want, just because you want it smacks of entitlement issues.
Stop being such an entitled Commie and respect other people's work. You
don't get to decide for others what they ought to do just because you think
they ought to do it. <....>
Kathleen

If I had written my own guide to learning and practicing permaculture, after 
years of research and work,
hoping for some degree of economic gain to sustain me over the years, and 
published it only to see you pirate it
and deprive me of much needed income, I would not be happy. Entitled commie, 
indeed :-)))))