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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 04:36:48 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:

I don't see how you can support ideas as property at all.

OK, what's your proposal, then? If they're not property, what are they?
and how do the people that come up with them get incented? I ain't gonna
invent stuff for you for free, you know... and neither is anyone else.
Those 20,000 failed light bulbs cost money. Who pays for that?

You said the patent system was flawed. I agree. What's your proposal?

Really, Jasper, you don't seem to be able to put together any arguments
on a property rights basis.

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  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
(...) They don't get incented. (...) Noone. Except possibly, oh, I don't know, how about those people who could actually benefit from the invention? You know, just like roads should be financed by the users. And please don't come shouting about how (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
(...) OK, go ahead and invent away. I don't invent for free. (...) So let me see here, what you're proposing is that I go out and invent something, someone else steals my idea, gets it to market first, and makes a pile from the users, and I don't (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
<3874CFB7.C78E8E40@voyager.net> <slrn879jtn.95s.matt...ia.bu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) I'm not sure. I haven't carried out an exhaustive analysis of the rights involved. I would tend to (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
<3874CFB7.C78E8E40@voyager.net> <FnxHxs.MKz@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Perhaps a workable patent system could be constructed which would recognize parallel development. I don't even see (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
 
My capitalist running dog lackey Frank Filz answered most of this append faster and better than I could. However a few points remain... (...) You can do that if you wish. Coke did, seems to work for them. However if someone else susses it out, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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