Verily I say unto thee, that Phil Da Lick! spake thusly:
Hadron wrote:
So you think its ok to steal someone else hard work without
re-numerating them?
That's "remunerating", Hardon - and people should be /remunerated/ for
the /actual/ products and services they sell ... not for the extortion
racket known as Intellectual "Property", where people try to claim
exclusive "ownership" of knowledge. R&D costs /can/ be recovered without
resorting to such a Draconian perversion of academic principles. Those
who use these unethical means to extort "remuneration" are motivated by
/greed/ ... not any kind of actual necessity.
No. Stupidest question ever. Here's a better question for you even
though I know the answer. Do you think its morally ok to drive
somebody out of business or suck away all their profits just because
they do something similar to yourself and you got there first? Even
though their solution is better than yours?
Two companies competing in the same market space are /bound/ to
adversely affect each others' business ... that's competition, and
there's nothing wrong with that, since it keeps prices low, and drives
innovation. However, when the specific /means/ that a company uses to
"compete" involves sabotage and exclusionary "deals", rather than merely
competing /purely/ on the merits of the product or service, then /that/
is racketeering ... and /that/ is how Microsoft runs its bizniz®. AFAIAC
abusing Intellectual Monopoly to exclude the competition is just one of
many examples of such racketeering.
The Trolls in the group are either too stupid to understand that simple
premise, or they are too morally deficient to care.
