Re: [OS:N:] IP - Was: Questionaire about ...
"Les Bell" <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" wrote: >> You mentioned intellectual property, Les. It's a legal idea. That's where it comes from. It was created by manmade law. It didn't come from nature. No other animal has it. Even man didn't have it until quite recently in our history. << We didn't have the printing press until comparatively recently, either. Or democracy. Other animals don't have those, either. Your point is? >> I believe that the fact that you are a beneficiary of the current system gives you a bias. << Wow! I just looked in a mirror, and while the top hat is quite fetching, the snout doesn't suit me at all and the cigar has given me a cough. I didn't realise that just working to put food on the table for my family had turned me into a Fat Capitalist B*stard. Oh, well; come the Digital Revolution, I'll be one of the first lined up against the wall. Ironic; I wrote my first article about hobby computing in 1975, and since then my articles and training courses have taught thousands of people to program, set up networks, etc. I should have just taken that job down the abattoir instead, and perhaps ended up in a country churchyard. "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest". . . Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>