Grothendieck wants to prevent publication of his texts

[anhinga_anhinga]

http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/grothendiecks-letter/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck#Retirement_into_reclusion

It's an interesting question -- to what extent a person owns his/her writings (not by law, but morally), especially if those writings have already become an integral and important part of the overall culture?

Comments

[spamsink.livejournal.com]

Society has no obligation to cater to delusions whatsoever, and the idea to have any control beyond the legal over one's immaterial productions is a definite delusion.

[bravchick.livejournal.com]

Do you ask whether it is moral to forbid publishing your own works, or whether it is moral to publish works of somebody else without the author's permission?