On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:40:53 +0100, Peter Kränkwonov<pkoff@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> ____/ Erik Jan on Wednesday 28 November 2007 19:56 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz had de volgende lumineuze gedachte op 28-11-07 12:30:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Proprietary software is from dark ages
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | So proprietary software means that we are in the dark ages and open
>>>> | source software means that we are in a mature democratic world. In
>>>> | fact, Eric Raymond has advocated a similar argument in his essay
>>>> | titled "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Whether you want to live in
>>>> | the dark ages or in a democratic society, is your choice.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>> http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/proprietary-software-is-from-dark-ages/
>>>
>>> Dear Roy,
>>>
>>> I have read somewhere that during the "Dark Age", first half of the
>>> medieval millenium, and in fact during the whole of the millenium, the
>>> great innovations in agriculture and technology, were fully "open
>>> source" as we call it now. Innovations went from monastery to monastery
>>> and each was free to innovate and spread its innovations. European
>>> civilizations is built upon a millennium of open source and free use of
>>> other people's ideas.
>>
>> The World Wide Web is probably the most recent (and notable) example of
>> innovation which relied on standards and openness. Imagine yourself a Web
>> where you need to pay $500 just to enter and then exchange nothing but Word
>> documents in it. There are attempts to subvert the Web at the moment (net
>> neutrality based by FUD about Internet capacity and 'proprietarisation', e.g.
>> Sharepoint, Silverlight (XAML), REST). Essentially, access to the Web is now
>> being commercialised (oWned).
>>
>>> "Intellectual Property", patents, are symptoms of a more capitalistic
>>> era, the one after the Middle Ages.
>>
>> "Intellectual Property" does not exist. Trademarks (like... for
>> example, your
>
>I can assure you Intellectual Property does exist. I must assume you
>never had a real job. Would I be right? Because one of the first things
>to be lost by the individual when he gets a real job is his ownership of
>his intellect. Anything thought of/made/discovered is the IP of the
>employer (when suitably linked of course to his job).
Right on the money once again Peter.
Geezz they are going to think we are the same person!
That's the usual tactic, discredit when you can't debate.
You are correct.
Sadly, Roy Schestowitz is a professional student hiding behind the
hallowed walls of academia.
I actually give him a little rope in this case because he just doesn't
understand how the real world operates, having had his mind polluted
by his professors, mentors etc for the last 12 years while he was/is
in school.
It's common.
However, Roy Schestowitz is going to learn real fast how the fruits of
his labor have ruined his life.
The only thing he can hope for is that Google, and every other
Internet/Usenet archive, goes belly up and his name is forever erased
from life.
Roy started this campaign to become famous.
Roy is now famous.
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