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From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 02:00:30 GMT
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In article <1343@eplunix.UUCP> das@eplunix.UUCP (David Steffens) writes:
>In article <BZS.93Jan14203519@world.std.com>,
>bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>> There has been some speculation as to whether or not USL would try to
>> extend this suit to control individuals who have ever had access to
>> the Unix sources. ... their latest legal filing leaves
>> little doubt that the worst fears have now been confirmed...
>
>We programmers have no one to blame for this but ourselves.
>For years we have been screaming for more and better laws and enforcement
>of licensing, copyright, patents, etc. Everyone and her sister wants
>"intellectual property" protection (an oxymoron if ever there was one).
Yes. Thank you for saying this.
>When ideas become "property", _everyone_ loses! So it goes...
The whole concept of intellectual property is so damned dishonest.
Of all the cockamamie ideas to come out of the legal profession
"intellectual property" has to be the most fraudulent. It purports
to protect inventors. What a fraud! How can anyone fall for it?
I can only conclude that the people who champion it
a) either haven't fully considered the ramifications
or
b) that they are not the creators of technical
innovations themselves and hope to suck the blood
from those who DO create for a living.
How any engineer or scientist could be in favor of a system that
means that *someone else* could own the contents of their brain
is beyond me. Do they harbor the myth that somehow they will
be allowed to own ideas they come up with? This is ridiculous.
Folks, Thomas Alva Edison is LONG DEAD. Inventions are created
by engineers and scientists and OWNED by boards of directors.
Engineers don't even get a piece of the action (i.e. a percentage)
in 99% of the cases. Where is the justice here? How can
technical people be so easily mislead into supporting this fraud.
smg