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[News] Explanation: Why Intellectual Monopolies (IP) Cannot Exist

  • Subject: [News] Explanation: Why Intellectual Monopolies (IP) Cannot Exist
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:26:10 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Why Intellectual Property Does Not Exist, Part 3502

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| Those who insist that copyright is the same as real property break their own 
| rule by also insisting that they retain perpetual rights to the good, even 
| after it's been sold. If copyright were like real property, after the creator 
| sold it, the buyer could do whatever they want with it, including giving it 
| out for free.    
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20080219/014250290.shtml

Here is the remark from Microsoft's ambassador at Novell (MSFT: News, Reports).

Open-source fans mixed on Microsoft move

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| Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project and a Novell programmer working 
| on Mono, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .Net software: "As a 
| chess move, it is a fascinating one...On the surface it looks very good. 
| (There are) lots of things that we want to interoperate with--Office, SQL 
| Server, SharePoint. Getting the documentation to everyone sounds great, and 
| it seems like they are serious about doing more interoperability work...When 
| the full list for patents becomes available, the question is what will 
| open-source vendors do if they find pieces that have historically infringed: 
| will they choose to license and be the recipients of the community wrath, or 
| will they hold their grounds and risk a lawsuit?"         
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9876425-39.html?tag=newsmap

Surely they will mind the .NET ripoffs.


Related:

Miguel de Icaza talks to the INQ

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| Inq: Why did you name your biggest project after an infectious disease?
| 
| Miguel: Because I am Mexican and in Spanish, Mono means monkey.
| 
| Inq: Thank you for your time.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/21/miguel-icaza-talks-inq


OpenSolaris, Gobuntu, and be careful who you kiss

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| I read the agreement between Xandros and Microsoft, and one of the excluded 
| products was Mono, so Microsoft promises to not sue Xandros over their 
| distribution but excluding Mono and a few other products, i.e. they reserve 
| the right to sue over Mono. I wonder if this is an interesting preview of on 
| what basis they want to fight the free world.    
| 
| Interestingly, the Novell deal seems to be different, Mono is not excluded 
| from the Novell deal. So Microsoft seems to be promising not to sue Novell 
| over Mono, but keeps the option open for Xandros. Weird but true.  
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http://commandline.org.uk/2007/be-careful-who-you-kiss/


Miguel, Mono and Microsoft

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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
| 
| [...]
| 
| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091

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