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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> spake thusly:
>If someone has a great idea for a software product and proceeds to
>realise that idea, his rights to that are absolutely enforcable.

The problem being, that the realisation should be protected, not the idea
itself. If someone wants to realise the idea in a different way, there
should be no restriction on that - competition is a good thing.

>
>In any event, the point of this little side-track is that ones ideas are
>NOT part of some overall collective consciousness as previously
>suggested by someone else.

I don't agree with the original poster about "evil theft from the
collective MIND" (yes, not he said mind, not consciousness), but I do think
his point has been grossly misrepresented.

I don't think he meant we all share the one mind or conciousness, anymore
than saying a million trees making up a forest means that the trees
themselves share a common root system. However, it would be bad for the
majority of trees if we were to take all the nutrients from the soil and
only give them to a select few trees. One might say that is "theft from the
collective root system", even though each tree has it's own root system. I
think what he meant was more along those lines.

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