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Intolerance and property rights
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:17:15 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38C99133.A47A4F64@voyager.net>...
> Only intolerance acted upon in a way that suppresses rights. We even
> tolerate someone discrminiating who he will sell scissors to because he
> only likes right handed people and can't tolerate lefties, as long as
> there are no governmental barriers to entry to the scissors market.
I'm a bit curious as to how patents fit into this scheme. One the one hand,
it is clearly good to protect the investment that went into an invention
(both "dollars" and the investment of self, which of course all is
"property"). On the other hand, a patent seems to deny someone else the
permission to make the same investment and make the same invention.
Frank
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| (...) This came up before and I don't have a satisfactory answer. I think one is out there, I just haven't taken the time to catalog all the stakeholders and determine their rights. My knee jerk was that IP *is* property. So you have the right not (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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| (...) No. Only intolerance acted upon in a way that suppresses rights. We even tolerate someone discrminiating who he will sell scissors to because he only likes right handed people and can't tolerate lefties, as long as there are no governmental (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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