Novell Sells Out

Russell McOrmond russell at flora.ca
Tue Nov 7 05:22:26 UTC 2006


Myles A. Braithwaite wrote:
> Check out Port 25 (Windows Open Source Blog) to see what they want to do.
> http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/11/02/Here_2700_s-some-big-news.aspx

   Interesting article.  Bill Hilf's choice of language seems to be to 
deliberately confuse all the very different types of "intellectual 
property" as if there is no distinction.  This is a common in those who 
support information/mental process patents, ignoring the laws of nature 
and the origins and purpose of the laws that they are commenting on.

   There is a night-and-day difference between patents involving humans 
manipulating the forces of nature to create something tangible, and 
information/mental processes which are entirely unrelated concepts.

   Unfortunately for us most people don't know the difference, whether 
it be from a laws of nature of economic perspective.

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