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

[Richard M. Stallman]

    >    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.

    Richard M. Stallman "holds these truths to be self-evident" claiming
    that any other take on the situation is "self-evidently spurious."

Those words are not mine, and that's not what I think.  I've given the
reasons for this position in the article
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml.

    As you probably are aware, I have been encouraging Mr. Stallman
    to do just that, to step back to take the position of writing
    not to the choir, nor even to the congregation, but to those
    out there who can make a difference by changing their minds
    and the minds of those who run the world of copyright, and just
    perhaps the rest of the world, as well.

I've been doing this for years, and I continue doing it.  Opposing use
of the term "intellectual property" is just one of the things I do so
as to change people's views about copyright.

    Hopefully I will have something worthy of reading for you early
    next week.

I look forward to it.  We need more people doing this kind of thing.