-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 February 2007 20:17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > BTW, Benjamin Franklin opposed Patents, argued against that clause > of the Constitution, and placed all his discoveries and inventions > in the Public Domain.
I'm not surprised. With the simple axiom that "any power granted to government can, and will at some point, be abused", I think the assumption of copyright and patent being "good" needs to be readdressed. Here's an interesting article on the subject, by someone I actually tend to disagree with, but it raises very important points none the less: There's No Such Thing As a Free Patent By Stephan Kinsella http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1763 "But the benefits that flow from the patent system are only half the story, since the system also comes with costs. Even if we are going to adopt a wealth-maximization criterion (which is, admittedly, problematic),[2] we must compare the costs to the benefits to know whether the system is worth having at all." - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRdEVvy9Y35yItIgBAQL7ywf/ZuBlJcznIJuayynB2drdNG82fzZTIvwQ bUucRdzoePPqGEQDCpXEJRFXyME34UH6nBckxZftu3G+6SUuJrQA0Q9jM6fw2rwI hxkratbme6zTtzS3zYjZEWilr0PKiM1lA08rS0422cTB+kQ17e6R3zxPwoO0QNJA Vxfw7cGNZzNMiJBvAnJEr4ERHwoD3OdodxYQt1cA+IHeJ+SGV7jX+0q8WI8iESm0 GhZO9VbqUUl0LbLnfuWsvo3mZMDAD585wQ5RIUbNmh2pQRefahKD9GbkV3rsK2xU i6bi85Zr/CJlg/kDlYLnAQy/4uzVIXI4sNHuAPBVNTQZOt1KOcqLGQ== =ZACh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
