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Re: Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?
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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:08:01 GMT
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Do you see how it works? Art is not created in a vacuum -- which is why • the
> precise way you stack your bricks is bound to occur to someone else and
> therefore no one has exclusive rights to the way bricks get stacked -- or • at
> least they shouldn't. Thanks to our Patent Office, all kinds of kookie • things
> are being protected for some one patent holder that are more properly part • of
> the commons. If you read some Slashdot articles you will find that Amazon • has
> some particularly offensive patents on things that are actually very • ordinary
> web technologies. Why should these ideas belong to Amazon for their • exclusive
> use?
I read an interesting slashdot article not too long ago about a "pre-emptive
anti-patent" or something (at least, that's what I'm calling it). Some
scientist patented something then released it to the public or some odd
thing like that. Basicly, he patented it only to keep anyone else from
patenting it then retaining it for himself. I read slashdot all the time
and if you learn anything from there, it's that the state of our IP and
patent law is deplorable (ooooo... haven't gotten to use that word in a
while). I especially liked how you said "Information really does want to be
free..." I'm reminded of the phrase "If you love something, let it go."
I suppose the closest thing I have to IP are my Lego designs, and yeah, it
would bug me if someone stole them and began selling them. But on the other
hand, I'm much happier knowing that if someone out there finds one of my
models so cool that they want to build it themself and swoosh it around the
room and display it on their desk at work, they can. I want my models out
there for the world to enjoy. I'd like to get the credit for designing
them, but I certainly don't want them locked away from the public, or
released in "pay per play" form and viewable only on your computer in jpeg
format.
I promised myself I wouldn't join the off-topic.debate group, but oh well...
Goodbye more free hours of time...
-- Tom
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| Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? (URL) Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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