Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 12:26 pm In article , suralis-s@mtu-net.ru says... > Gerry Quinn wrote: > >>I do believe that the US intellectual property law is aimed > >>exclusevely on preventing fair competition. > > > > What sort of fair competition? > > > > Say I write and publish a book - what fair competition is IP law > > preventing? > > > It's just demagogism. IP laws have nothing to do with paying to > the authors. IP legislature is about protecting profits of IP > holders that aren't authors in most of the cases. They either paid the authors to produce the IP, or bought the IP from the authors, so it is irrelevant that they are not the authors. > Technology > advances broke the business of such corporations in the same way > as automobiles kill the carter's business. It's natural that they > fight against it. It is less natural that you support them with > such a rigor, IMHO:) We're not talking about technology advances here. We are talking about somebody with a duplicating machine. > As for books, there is no need for IP laws to prevent plagiarism. > Plagiarism took place long before modern IP laws and was dealt > more or less successfully. You haven't answered my question. What fair competition is being prevented? - Gerry Quinn .