Re: Shrinkwrap contract on books

["Stephen D. Franklin" <franklin@uci.edu>]

>  Isn't it a pity that Stallman's article is not available in open access?
> 
> Jan Velterop
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen D. Franklin
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Sent: 12/6/02 11:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Shrinkwrap contract on books 
> 
> Time to (re)read, Richard Stallman's "The right to read"
> (Communications of the ACM, v.40 n.2, Feb 1997):
>   http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/253671.253726
> 
> Stallman's projection of what life might be like in 2047 may not have to
> wait that long.

Actually it is.  Asking Google to find Richard Stallman's "The right to
read" produces the reference
  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html at the top of the list.  
It is also the first item under Society > Issues > Intellectual Property
in Google's Web Directory ( http://directory.google.com/ ).

My citing the ACM DOI was simply a (lazy) cut-and-paste from a
bibliographical note I had in a readily available piece of e-mail.

I'm not sure how widely available (tightly restricted) the ACM DOI
reference is because I may well be accessing it as part of an
institutional subscription arrangement.

Stephen D. Franklin
University of California, Irvine
E-mail: franklin@uci.edu
Web: http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/franklin/