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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Posted by: Steve B (Monday 10 January 2005, 12:04 PM)
Confusion between IP rights and copyrights?
I think there is a lot of purposeful confusion here. While no one would condone a "copy" of a program such as a program myoffice which apart from a different logo matched "Office" perfectly, that is different from agreeing that chunks of code that do tasks should be protected. If you want to perform a task in the best way there are only so many obvious variations as programming is a stirct language. once all of these are protected by IP what do programmers do? Write inefficient code? I think MS has most of that sewn up as well.
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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
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The magic word "communism" always seems to be used... Arthur B. -
Are we suddenly back in the 1950s? Perhaps Mr... Chris Rankin -
I agree with Arthur B.
Mr Gates should read... Micheal H
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Gates is precisely correct: communism operat... Brent Roberts
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Confusion between IP rights and copyrigh... Steve B -
Brent Roberts is wrong.
"Gates is precis... Kevin Peacock
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There can be so such 'rights' which... Brent Roberts -
Brent. Sigh. Communism has not... Arthur B.
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If a requisite of "skills, kno... Brent Roberts
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Brent. I would like to recomme... Arthur B.
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An interesting debate Brent, b... Kevin Peacock
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Lets stick with the mousetrap... Brent Roberts
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A good reply Arthur.
Brent, I... Kevin Peacock
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Hi Brent, what OO version are you using... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo – I'm using version 1.1.1.... Brent Roberts
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Oh bugger off, the world's a better place with win... samuel
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Samuel,
Replying to you in the same vein as y... Andy
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Not much ammunition left for Mr Gates.
I... Anonymous
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The world Mr Gates wants to see has far more in co... Kevin Peacock
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I see he's had to resort to name-calling again.
So... Steve J
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World is much worse off thanks to MS and IBM... Steve B
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I think that Gates is unwanted and unnee... NJ
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Kevin. Well said. Very well said.
B... Arthur B.
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"Its eyes ever set on the competition, Microsoft w... Ricardo Mardisich
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"the world... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo, thanks for your comment. We wou... Matt Loney
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Beside the fact that this is nothing more than FUD... BURNAND Patrick
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I find Bill Gates comments on mesh networking inte... Andy Coney
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In a similar discussion on IP rights on a dif... Mark Jones
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