Re: Lessig on Property

PILCH Hartmut <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:31:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.aful.patents
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> >A while ago I had some public discussions with RMS in which I said
> >there was nothing wrong with the notion of "intellectual property" and
> >that it could indeed be an enlightening notion if put into the proper
> >context.  I also said that software patents should be seen as a
> >dysfunctional (non-performant) set of rules for turning intellectual
> >achievements into (virtual) property objects.
> 
> This is misleading. Patents and Copyright are no property
> at all.

I'm afraid you didn't care to read Lessig's text, nor mine.