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- From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
- Subject: Re: intellectual property and shit
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:25:59 GMT
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- aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
- > Please. To say "Someone's got to feed his children's mouths, so
- > he must have a right to get paid for doing X" really doesn't mean
- > anything. X, that happens to be programming in this case, could
- > as well be working in a factory or being in the mafia. Not that I
- > think any of these are comparable in many ways, just to explain
- > why I don't see the fact that someone has children to care for
- > having any relevance regarding the justification of his way of
- > making money.
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- No, Jan, you're right on target. I want to make money although I have NO CHILD-
- REN and no other acceptable excuse for wanting to get rich.
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- My intellectual property (and, as such, the software I write) is mine ALL MINE
- all the same if I f*ck my girlfriend with a rubber or without. Who said a
- forgotten rubber makes a difference between copyright and no copyright?
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