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Overly Simplistic

Any kind of property is subject to cycles. Market cycles, Political
cycles, and life cycles. Any property, physical or intellectual,
goes through processes of discover, consolidation, and
fragmentation. This movement is nothing short of our
intellectual evolution. Profit taking motivates discovery, but
these discoveries have always moved towards the public space
to become more accessible and more widely understood. As thin
skinned and fairly meak creatures, we've always depended on
this. Our brains put us on top of the food chain and it's been a
group effort. To be "against" IP is as naive as being "for" it. It's
simply not up to you.

To assign strict and indefinite property rights to an idea is to
claim to be the wellspring of thought itself. Every modern
company stands on the shoulders of public knowledge. Despite
this, they all would have the building stop at their level and be
declared the penthouse. So do enjoy a brief stint in the sun, but
understand you can't own an alphabet, you can't own a logic
gate, and complexity is not the property of any one brain big
enough to contain it. Soon enough the ego goes away and the
ashes in your urn won't own that forty acres. As high grade
fertilizer... it owns you.

Posted by: Harry Bardal   Posted on: 01/16/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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