Fw: Re: Knight and Public Domain

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

Meant to send this to the whole list and sent it to Mike instead; I add that 
there is no "analogy" between physical and intellectual property. They are just 
different forms of the same thing, and frequently intertwined.

Don

--- On Thu, 5/15/08, don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Knight and Public Domain
> To: mike@indexdata.com
> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:40 PM
> --- On Thu, 5/15/08, Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > That doesn't change the fact that any attempt to
> > analogise
> > "intellectual property" with physical
> property is
> > fatally compromised
> > by the fact that IP can be replicated at
> effectively-zero
> > cost.  As
> > soon as you have a technology that allows you to do
> the
> > same to my
> > car, you're welcome to copy that, too.
> 
> 
> What? Are you saying the design of your car is not an
> intrinsic part of the vehicle? Or that having spent your
> life designing a car, are you willing to let me take food
> out of your mouth just because it is easy?
> 
> Don