Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:44:16 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000523184114.0413ced0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200005240014.RAA02837@usr05.primenet.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000522213325.0446bc00@localhost>
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At 06:14 PM 5/23/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > And looking under the hood of a car doesn't give you the ability to > > create unlimited numbers of identical cars, thereby depriving the > > automobile manufacturer of any future reward from his work. > >Depends a lot on who's doing the looking, I think... otherwise why >patents? Patents are a bit different. With patents, the inventor is rewarded for not only opening the hood but telling everyone how he crafted what's inside. In return, he gets a limited monopoly on his new idea. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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