Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <slrn70t95p.ub.jedi@dementia.mishnet>, jedi@dementia.mishnet
writes
>       Actually, they were never your property at all. The notion
>       that they are is just a convenient construct to further 
>       some public policy goals.

His (and my) ideas most certainly are his own 'property'.

>       No you don't really. You don't have any real property
>       rights in ideas: just a public policy exuse for 'government
>       interference' that just happens to benefit you in such a
>       situation.

While no-one can claim exlusive rights to an idea anyone can certainly
claim rights baed upone the implementation of that idea, especially if
they are the first to do so.

Several thousand years of trade are based upon that very principle.
-- 
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/27
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