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.

-- 

Chris Gray

VM Architect, ACUNIA


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