Open Source Business Found Parasitic, and the ADCL
Chris Gray
chris.gray at acunia.com
Fri Mar 14 11:59:07 UTC 2003
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, David Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:10 am, Chris Gray wrote:
>
> > > I am also a believer in intellectual property.
> >
> > The noise you hear is of RMS exploding. ;>
>
> RMS is a very ardent believer in intellectual property. So much so that
> he slaps a copyright on everything he writes. He may not like software
> patents, but he doesn't have a problem with hardware patents. And as
> far as I know, he's neutral on the subject of trademarks.
RMS is certainly fond of copyright notices, but the term "intellectual
property" is firmly on the proscribed list:
<http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty>.
Quite rightly too, if you ask me.
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Chris Gray
VM Architect, ACUNIA
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