From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 17:15: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3E437B822 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA06466; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:14:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAGnaaIm; Tue May 23 17:14:34 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02837; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:14:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005240014.RAA02837@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:14:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000522213325.0446bc00@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at May 22, 2000 09:36:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > No, it's not. Creative works are very different from physical objects. Right. In the future, physical objects will be as cheap as the atoms required to assemble them, whereas create works will continue to have non-zero value... > 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? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message