Re: Lessig on Property
PILCH Hartmut <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:31:37 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.aful.patents |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> >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.