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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.

  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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