Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 12:13 pm In article , david.golden@oceanfree.net says... > Gerry Quinn wrote: > > > It's amusing how quickly these anti-IP types so quickly turn from > > their specious moralistic claims to the threat of force. > > > But it is threat of force (legally applicable force is still force) that > created the information distribution monopolies in the first place. All property law is backed by the threat of force. I merely point out that it sits ill with your previous ruminations on slavery etc. > And there you go with "anti-IP", I assume that was just petty sniping > because I'd quite specifically pointed out in the very post you were > replying to that various I"P" rights are just too different for such > pro-/anti- blanket statements: It's just invalid to treat copyright and > trademark and patent and design and the various moral rights as things > you're either all-for or all-against. I don't believe you want to leave anything more than a skeletal and effectively useless remnant of IP, rather as communist states left a skeletal and effectively useless pretence of freedom. > Should probably mention an important side issue (dishonest to let > you continue to believe the copyright being opposed was just like > copyright-as-we-know-it, dunno if it would change your opinion of the > relative merits of the involved people's positions, of course...): Indeed, I am aware of this, and I consider the subject very tangential to any discussion of modern IP law. - Gerry Quinn .