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- Wrong! Do you have an economic clue?
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Copyrights and patents are necessary for capitalism. Financial benefits are a big incentive to be inventive. You can't benefit when there is no protection for your ideas. IP protection is vital to sustained innovation.
On the other hand, communism would exclude patents & copyrights. The very word "communist" means that everything belongs to everyone. You just created something new? Oh well, it now belongs to the "benevolent" state, for everyone to use. Why create anything in that case? There's no payoff for being the originator.
P.S. Validity of specific patents is an entirely different question. - Posted by: techboy_z Posted on: 12/30/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
VoIP inter-connectivity
dherman | 12/29/03
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never known a landline
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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This is the American way
toomuchgreeatea@... | 12/29/03
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Maybe American, but not capitalist
yorzhik | 12/30/03
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Wrong! Do you have an economic clue?
techboy_z | 12/30/03
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re : Wrong! Do you have an economic clue?
JWatson77 | 12/31/03
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Hogwash!
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
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So what? The industry has to shakeout.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
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It is just not so..
BubbaPcGuy | 01/12/04
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Bu that;s not all..
wmburke | 01/15/04
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And moreover..
wmburke | 01/15/04
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