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Article #20016Re: intellectual property and shit
From: Martin P. Ibert
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:25
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:25
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aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
> Please. To say "Someone's got to feed his children's mouths, so
> he must have a right to get paid for doing X" really doesn't mean
> anything. X, that happens to be programming in this case, could
> as well be working in a factory or being in the mafia. Not that I
> think any of these are comparable in many ways, just to explain
> why I don't see the fact that someone has children to care for
> having any relevance regarding the justification of his way of
> making money.
No, Jan, you're right on target. I want to make money although I have NO CHILD-
REN and no other acceptable excuse for wanting to get rich.
My intellectual property (and, as such, the software I write) is mine ALL MINE
all the same if I f*ck my girlfriend with a rubber or without. Who said a
forgotten rubber makes a difference between copyright and no copyright?
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