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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 00:14:30 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), gsutter@zer0.org (Gregory Sutter), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The Ethics of Free Software
Message-ID:  <200005240014.RAA02837@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000522213325.0446bc00@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at May 22, 2000 09:36:05 PM

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> No, it's not. Creative works are very different from physical objects.

Right.  In the future, physical objects will be as cheap as
the atoms required to assemble them, whereas create works will
continue to have non-zero value...


> And looking under the hood of a car doesn't give you the ability to
> create unlimited numbers of identical cars, thereby depriving the
> automobile manufacturer of any future reward from his work.

Depends a lot on who's doing the looking, I think... otherwise why
patents?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.


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