From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: brian@worldcontrol.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OT] Re: Money stifles innovation
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:29:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010218222903.A32459@xi.linuxpower.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010218140839.A14166@top.worldcontrol.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102181745310.18324-100000@anime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102181745310.18324-100000@anime.net>; from goemon@anime.net on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest
> > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law.
> > As a person with a some decades of experience with patents and
> > trademarks, and playing among the various sides, I can state
> > quite unequivocally that the problem is money.
>
> Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil
> at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor).
Actually, it's because we've made it illegal to corporations to behave
ethically when it conflicts with short-term shareholder profits.
http://www.ratical.com/corporations/
It would be nice if it were so simple as to declare the involved parties as
evil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-19 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-18 8:44 XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.] brian
2001-02-18 8:57 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-18 22:08 ` Money stifles innovation [was: " brian
2001-02-19 1:47 ` Dan Hollis
2001-02-19 2:09 ` brian
2001-02-19 2:19 ` Neil Brown
2001-02-19 3:29 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2001-02-19 4:15 ` [OT] Re: Money stifles innovation Dan Hollis
2001-02-18 20:04 ` XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.] Aaron Tiensivu
2001-02-18 20:04 ` Aaron Tiensivu
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