On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Steve Crocker <steve(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Actually, I interpret the chemistry professor's comment in a different
light. It would be possible to design a system where:
o the standard end user software doesn't facilitate editing the other
person's text, and
o each piece of text is signed.
The result would be a system where a recipient would know whether the
person who is alleged to have written a piece of the message actually did
so, and the normal mode of use would be to leave things untouched. Or, if
you edit someone else's text, it immediately becomes your text.
Steve
Believe it or not Ted Nelson had a similar idea when he invented Xanadu
Hypertext. He was obsessed by copyright and the notion that it would be
wrong to copy someone else's text to another machine, hence the need for
links.
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