Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:22 pm

In article <MPG.1d7e4254935b0f9198a4dc@news.indigo.ie>, 
gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie says...
> In article <dev1ma$6ne$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru>, suralis-s@mtu-net.ru says...
> > Gerry Quinn wrote:

> > IP is a kind of ownership of knowledge to the great extent. It
> > was hardly possible to even think of before 1980's 
> 
> First copyright law is generally said to be the Statute of Anne, 1710.  

And patents date from the fifteenth century.

- Gerry Quinn

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