More about Lessig (see earlier
December 22nd, 2001
More about Lessig (see earlier post): Dave Winer (of Scripting News) objects to Lessig’s comparison (in a recent Wired article) of copyrighted novels and copyrighted software. Dave says: “You can not see how Hemingway wrote, you can only see the words he published, the publication does not reveal the process. Similarly with software, students are free to study the published work….Further, I can sing a song I heard on the radio, but with published source, anyone would be able to sing the song as well as the person who created it.”
It’s Dave who’s got the analogy backward. more in the Rants section >>>>>