Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 12:17 pm

In article <XC7Se.6161$R5.962@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
[Gerry Quinn said:]

> > You're making a pseudo distinction, because you haven't given a
> > process for deciding what a 'common owner' can do. 
> 
> > Whoever decides that is the  real owner.
>     
> Well, I wouldn't necessarily wildly disagree  with you if you are
> asserting that it's executives and judges and arguing lawyers in the
> West who are effectively "real owners", not the nominal property owners
> - sure seems that way sometimes. 
> 
> Nor would I necessarily wildly disagree with you  that in large-scale
> "communism" with central planning, the people in government allocating
> stuff "in the best interests of the people" and the judges and
> lawyer-analogues would be are effectively the "real owners" - in fact I 
> came pretty close to expressing very similar sentiments.

And since you are claiming that ownership is given to the world at 
large, you cannot be more large-scale.  

I support IP ownership by its creators, not by parasitic maggots acting 
in the name of 'The People'.

- Gerry Quinn

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