Newsgroups: trial.misc.legal.software
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: Intellectual Property
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 02:21:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.022112.2438@looking.on.ca>
References: <80565@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Aug10.043721.2081@looking.on.ca> <80636@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Aug11.040632.21692@looking.on.ca> <80817@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Aug14.172413.10447@looking.on.ca> <GUMBY.90Aug14144505@Cygnus.COM>

One need not be a marxist to agree that labour has value, and that thus
labour and its results are property.  (Property of the labourer)  One can
still believe, as I do, that the value of the labour is defined to be
how much people are willing to pay for it -- which is the non-marxist
value system.

That labour is the source of value does not make it define the quantity
of value.  The market still does that.   I'm talking about the definition
of property.  And Marx said that property is theft.   When it comes to I.P.,
Richard agrees with him.

The market has shown that creative thought (the source of I.P.) is the
most valuable property there is.  Nobody ever got rich at unskilled labour.
All the really rich people in the world got rich by selling their ideas
and skills.  (The word "selling" is used broadly here.)

More evidence that I.P. is the truest form of property.

-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
