The Eternal Squire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The legality of copying, modifying and redistributing works should be > >reformed until it matches a 6th grader's intuitions about sharing. > > A 6th grader also has intuitions regarding the ownership of an idea. > "It was MY idea!!!" "No, it's NOT!!!" "Is TOO!!!"
And what should we teach those children? "Now children, it can be an idea you *both* have, and you both get the benefit. Learn to share." Or, do we instead teach them: "Excellent children! Keep on fighting over who owns ideas, and never share them. That's the sort of society we want you to live in." The more you try to teach them to stop sharing, the more we'll teach them to share. Keep your propaganda about "sharing == evil" away from children. -- \ "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have | `\ others." -- Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
