Subj : Reality Check!
To   : PETER BRADIE
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Oct 30 2002 12:34 pm

Peter,

 MVD>> In my book /that/ is dictatorship.

 PB> Do you have any concept of intellectual property?  Or
 PB> dictatorship?

 PB> If you are forced to participate in an echo, that's
 PB> dictatorship.

Nobody is forcing anyone to participate in any echo.

 PB> If you are prohibited from leaving an echo and starting one of your
 PB> own in competition, that's dictatorship.

Nobody is forbidding anyuone to start an echo. I said it is not what the users 
want, that is somnething entirely different.

 PB> That's also a monopoly, but you don't appear to have a
 PB> grasp of economic theory any better than your grasp of
 PB> political theory.

Ah yes, that old fight'o'net attitude: belittle the opponent if you can not 
convince him.

 PB> If you want the right to take away the intellectual property
 PB> of the person who started the echo, that's sanctioned theft.

Intelectual property applies to works of science or art. An echo does not 
qualify as such. The intelectual property yoy refer to does not exist.

Cheers, Michiel

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