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Re: Microsoft spreads Linux FUD
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Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:19:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> [1] no matter what your views on *physical* property, Larry -- this is
> different in many ways.
We had some of this debate before... I'm not sure what I think, exactly.
Open Source clearly works and delivers good things but there has to be an
incentive of some sort to cause clever people to do clever things. Whether
IP is the best way, I dunno. To the extent that the internet is a
meritocracy, OS delivers that incentive to the clever who get the kudos from
their peers.
In a way, IP and Open Source right now are competing in a marketplace of
ideas! (and you KNOW I like that...) Innovative people can make their choice
of what to do, go OS, or go IP. I'd like to keep it that way (that is, don't
BAN IP, just see if it withers away), if OS wins out fair and square, great.
(In Hogan's "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" there was a postulated society with
no property at all... and no money needed, since 'bots provided all that was
needed. Status was based on respect for what you'd done, not how many toys
you had, since everyone could have as many toys as they wanted)
Time will tell in the OS/IP competition. Ain't it great?
++Lar
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| (...) I'm more concerned about things going the other way -- IP laws, especially software patents, but also bans on reverse engineering (as with DeCSS), being extended to the point where open source can't reasonably compete. The situation with DeCSS (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I think that the point that they are inarticulately trying to make is: "The system of proprietary intellectual property rights provides an incentive to put money into research. The principles of openness and sharing demonstrated in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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