LWN.net Logo

"straight"?

"straight"?

Posted Feb 8, 2007 22:20 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
In reply to: "straight"? by gvy
Parent article: Russian Schools to Switch to Linux After Microsoft Piracy Case (MosNews)

Well if you don't know or remember, america ignored European copyrights for something like 70 years or two centuries

And actually, the movie industry moved to California in the early 1900s because they wanted to avoid paying for Edison's patents...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2008, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds