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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:14:30PM -0500, Douglas Trainor wrote:
>
> "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an
> intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
> -- Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, talking to Dave Newbart of the Chicago Sun-Times
> -->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html
>
> MSFT on the GPL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-14-006-20-PS-CY-MS
>
> Points to a ZD story called "Beware of wolves in agnostic's clothing":
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-14-007-20-OP-CY-MS
You forgot Stallman, at
http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/forums/copyright/index_transcript.html
Also, it's a very bad idea to think about intellectual property
for two reasons: First, it prejudges the most fundamental
question in the area which is: How should these things be
treated and should they be treated as a kind of property? To
use the term "intellectual property" to describe the area is to
presuppose the answer is "yes," that that's the way to treat
things, not some other way.
Second, it encourages over-generalization. Intellectual
property is a catch-all for several different legal systems with
independent origins such as, copyrights, patents, trademarks,
trade secrets and some other things as well. They are almost
completely different; they have nothing in common.
No wonder Ballmer is so confused about IP!
--
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -- JKG
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