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Re: [News] Stallman Facts

After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> (And why should it be claimed anyway? Must every speck
> of dust, and fleeting thought, in the universe "belong" to someone,
> clearly marked with a monogrammed American flag staked into it?)

Uh, yes?

> What "rights" should the processes of observation and deduction
> intrinsically bestow, regardless of how much it costs to register and
> publish the results? Well frankly, none, because the truth is that none
> of this has anything whatsoever to do with "rights", but rather the very
> antithesis of rights - power. "IP" should actually stand for Inhibitive
> Power - the power to inhibit others from learning and utilising
> knowledge. It's the power to subjugate others, for the purpose of
> commoditising that which should never have been allowed to become a
> commodity, but which fell prey to the predatory advances of Corporatism.

"IP" used to be protected to help the small-time innovator survive, but then
the big-time innovators figured out how to game the system.  Time for a
change.

-- 
You will be winged by an anti-aircraft battery.

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