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Article #1712Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Joe Buck
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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Louis B. Moore <moore.louis@childrens.tchden.org> wrote: >Well, if you consider intellectual property to be social capital, then >society as a whole is impoverished to the extent that the individual >is enriched. I suppose that can be considered theft. The above analysis assumes a zero-sum game. Depending on the design of IP laws, going to one extreme (no protection) it might be impractical to develop new drugs, so we all lose. Going to the other extreme (patents on everything, trade secrets on anything else), it might be impractical to develop free software. Again we all lose. >Copyright attempts to find a balance between the individual and society. Exactly. -- -- Joe Buck work: jbuck@synopsys.com, otherwise jbuck@welsh-buck.org or jbuck@best.com http://www.welsh-buck.org/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: jbuck@best.com (Joe Buck) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/29 Message-ID: <6us2b3$ge7$1@shell17.ba.best.com> X-Deja-AN: 396192341 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_ <yq3emsuiqpf.fsf@nasrullah.tchden.org> X-Trace: 907119783 26077 jbuck 206.184.139.149 Organization: Unknown Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss