!@!Re: !@!Re: [Upd-discuss] Did You Say "Intellectual Property"?It's a Seductive Mirage by Richard M. Stallman

Richard M. Stallman rms@gnu.org
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:49:38 -0400


    I have just found that "exclusive rights" enables me to transform
    discussions.  Even the behavior of those who continue to insist
    on using the term "intellectual property" very quickly becomes
    self-evidently spurious.

I think you're saying that if you start by substituting the term
"exclusive rights" for "intellectual property", this makes it easy to
proceed subsequently to abandon the generalization of "exclusive
rights" for discussion of specific laws.  Am I right in understanding
it that way?

If the method regularly achieves that goal, then it sounds good to me.
It would be interesting for others to try it in discussions, and
report on their results.