Re: [OS:N:] IP - Was: Questionaire about ...
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Les Bell wrote: > "[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? To remind you of your original question, to which the foregoing was part of my reply: Les Bell wrote: "Law? Law? Who mentioned law?" You mentioned law, indirectly, Les, when you mentioned IP rights. > 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. Does the motivation for working determine what someone is? If somebody worked for the mafia to put food on the table for his family, would that make him any less of a criminal? _______________________________________________ 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>