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| DATE | 2001-10-10 |
| FROM | Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] more PHP Copyright dribbl
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This is quite humerous for Eric Berg to tell David Sugar this, but stepping
back for a minute from my astounishment of this crass and incredibly
ridicules statements....
<you trade, the ownership of which is really just represented as bits stored
on
your computer and the code that makes up computer programs.>>
Well, stock options are really Gambling chips and Davids Program is a
cultural artifact,
and that's just for starters.
<levels
of abstraction as human beings. >>
All of which has nothing to do in any way shape of form with real cultural
artifacts like poetry, allogithisms, scientific research, or computer
programs.
These are not Gambling chips, or markers on a roulet table, or a legal
contract
giving you real ownership of a real business with REAL buildings, desks,
labs,
outlets, tucks and factories.
I'm sure a man of your Broad vission can see such things.
<sustainance: find food and eat it. Now, in order to achieve this same
level of
sustainance, we go to work, exchanging our time for credit held in trust by
our
financial institutions. That in turn is exchanged with the grocer
(electric
company, landlord, etc.) for food which we then eat. It's an abstraction
that
can be applied directly to the concept of the ownership of ideas.>>
And your point. So far is is all noise and fails the most basic best of
remaining
on the topic of cultural artifacts. Food is real and can be stolen....
<sustain
an information-based economy. Does my exchanging my thoughts (and, granted
my
time to express them) fall into the same category, nullifying all
copyrights to
the written word?>>
Make a point on the topic Eric....
Ruben
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