Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 01:23 pm

In article <NGgSe.6187$R5.643@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
> 
> > The way I look at it, free enterprise / capitalism, whatever its
> > faults, decentralises power.  Command economies centralise power.  The
> > end result tends to be the difference between a galaxy and a black
> > hole.

> Heh. But you get all stroppy when the decentralisation
> of the net and libre software numbers the days of centrally administered
> monopolies on information...

Because I support decentralisation of power/property, not its 
destruction.  Destroying IP is a communist act insofar as the IP was 
owned by private individuals.

It's exactly the same as if land ownership (i.e. the monopoly of a 
landowner on its use) is 'decentralised'.

> "The anthrax panic, preceded by the events of September 11, has
> amplified the manner in which patents subvert the market and
> invite-even require-further central planner tinkering."  
> --Ilana Mercer
> http://www.mises.org/story/812

The idea, it seems, is that it would be convenient if ownership of 
Cipro were to be taken from its inventer.  The author, whether due to 
dishonesty or stupidity I cannot say, fails to address the question of 
why future Cipros should be developed.

[More irrelevant quotes.  I do not recall ever hearing that Robert 
Heinlein placed his SF books in the public domain.]

- Gerry Quinn

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