Re: Some interesting economic facts

["Katharine M.J. Osborne" <kosborne@rocketmail.com>]

---Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
>
> You're describing a philosophy for which I've coined the
term "Stallmanism" 
> (after Richard Stallman): the notion that the entire
concept of intellectual 
> property is wrong and should be abolished.
> 
> I, personally, think that this is going too far. The
Constitutional principle
> that giving inventors and authors the exclusive right to
creative work FOR A
> LIMITED TIME will encourage creativity is sound and
proven. The notion that one 
> should be able to own raw information -- that is, that
which is not the result of 
> creativity -- is another matter. It's an extension that
-snip-

Perhaps a better definition of the problem is defining
whether that raw information will lead to a creative
process (perhaps at the most basic level that creative
process is the financial growth of a business), and that
that creative process is best served if it exclusively
carried out within the confines of the owner.

Frankly I think that on a basic level this idea is wrong,
but I can see where there may be cases where it would be
beneficial.

KaOs

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