Le primidi 1er thermidor, an CCXXV, Ben Finney a écrit : > By analogy: I am not capable of maintaining the house I live in, let > alone of making significant improvements. > > Yet I benefit from the fact that anyone sufficiently motivated can learn > to do so and they don't need permission from the people who made the > house. > > If anyone who wanted to improve the house I live in were prevented from > doing so without the express permission of the people who made the > house, you're damned right I would complain. > > I may have no intention of ever doing so myself, but I want a wide-open > market of people who can do so if I ask, who have learned because no law > stops them from doing so.
This is a very fine analogy, I will remember it. For reference, in France, for public buildings designed by prestigious architects, we have exactly that problem. The architects consider themselves aaaartists rather than engineers. As a result, you get buildings with the stairs to the previous and next floor at opposite ends of a corridor (everybody takes the lift for two floors, obviously) and naked concrete in a library. Furthermore, when the people who actually use the building want to make changes, the architects invoke their so-called intellectual property to block it. They had to sue just to be allowed to add an invisible varnish on the concrete to prevent the dust from ruining the books. In fact, I think this issue is becoming more mainstream, especially with hardware: "right to repair" is something very present in the news nowadays. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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