On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:44:21 +0200 (IST) Stanislav Malyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> EB>> Whatever I think about IP laws, I can't escape the bare fact > EB>> that KWord violates quite a few of them. (EB) declares his hypothesis a fact :-) > When _I_ think about IP laws, I can't help thinking it is basically wrong > to give people ownership of ideas. This concept have gone way too far. If > someone discovered the fact that humans like menues on top of the text and > not on the bottom - why he should own this fact? How at all one can own a > fact? The term IP is a bit misleading. The "property" they own is a time limited monopoly (~18 years in the US, not sure in Israel) on the use of the fact/algorithm/idea/whatever. Quoting myself about 3 months ago: Although IANAL, AFAIK Copyrights and Patents do not say the given item (be it software or an art creation) is the *property*. They just give the author some control about either the distribution of his work (copyrights) or the duplication of his "invention" (patents). The representatives of the media and software houses like a lot to call these "IP" as this term reinforces the (false) analogy to property and other similar terminology (e.g: thieves) Needless to say I share your feelings about the crazy path those IRR (Intelect Restriction Rights) are taking in the last years. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron Code Red, Blue or Green there all a symptom of a far more pervasive and insidious virus, it costs around $200. -anonymous ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
