In a message dated 9/7/01 2:43:31 PM, jceaser_at_mac.com writes:
<< But at what point does property become all of ours. Are you saying that
Bach and Sir Isac Newton's notes should be owned by someone? Should the US
government change for copies made of the Constitution. Should Zerox be the
only company that makes copiers? No, at some point, private information
must become community property. If you can't make use if it in 75 years or
when ever it is the copy right expires, to bad. You had your chance and you
and your family have no right to with hold human knowledge from the rest of
the world. We are suppose to be working together to improve all of our
lives. At some point, information must become comunity property.
Yes, property is given back to the comunity after an amount of time, it's
called death. No one ownes anything, they only borow it for a very very
short time. And you can clame squating rights in many places.
I find nothing wrong with using software or giving it away if the owner does
not claim it or they can not be found. The IRS does it all the time. You
dissapear, they wait a few years, then sell all your stuff to pay your
taxes. You find a car an the road you try to find the owner, if no one
claimes it then it's yours. Software is a comodity like anything else. >>
How wonderfully utopian. It is, however, completely wrong. What is private
must remain so forever or the notion of private is meaningless. No one should
have a right to the fruits of anyone elses' labor without due compensation.
The elapsed length of time is irrelevant.
-William
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