Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again) To : comp.programming From : Gerry Quinn Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 01:27 pm In article , david.golden@oceanfree.net says... > Gerry Quinn wrote: > > > The ideas you are proposing are communist in their > > essence - deal with it. > > No they're not - deal with it. > Here's that link again... > "The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights" It doesn't make any case for you, any more than you would necessarily be a fascist if some neo-Nazi site claimed copyright was a Zionist plot. Your ideas are still software communism, whatever you call them. > >> > why future Cipros should be developed. > >> Because there'd be demand for them. > > But no reward for the inventor. So why bother? > > No reward? non-exhaustively: > 1) A new drug would exist for the inventor too. Black pustules - searing pain - coughing blood. Must... invent... drug... > 2) First to market advantage Three years satisfying FDA, while others with no research or testing costs plan a near simultaneous launch. Unless it doesn't look profitable, or if it poisons people - then the loss is all mine. > 3) demand existing to be satisfied, a new market established. Must... spill... anthrax... > 4) being paid to develop a new drug by people who need it Anyone here with anthrax? Hello? I don't see a billion dollars in my hand. I'm waiting... - Gerry Quinn .