On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 04:39 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > The authors should decide what to do with their own work. NOT ANYBODY > ELSE. You should understand that "property" is natural only for physical objects, just because possession of a physical object can be controlled by physical means and cannot be easily replicated. Abstract objects like ideas, but also anything that can be replicated at zero cost without destroying the original, can't be subject to real property. Only society rules, abstract themselves!, can grant anything. Still, even if you declare by law that the world is flat, you are not changing reality, you are just making a rule. "Intellectual Property" is a brainwashing term that tries to make you think non physical matter can be owned the same way physical matter can be. That's not true, and applying that way of thinking to non physical goods can only lead to stupid consequences. As it is _not natural_ to treat "Intellectual Property" like physical property, as it is not, the maximum you can achieve is social tension at best. That said I'd like to remember you that EVERYBODY here base their own work and rules ON copyright. By this very fact it means that everybody IS following the rules of this CAPITALISTIC society, and you have no right whatsoever to say the contrary until you bring proof people is acting against the rules. Your babbling about socialism, communism, fascism, and whatnot, is just bi-speaking and mystification, and is based on nothing concrete. Drivers developers know the rules of the Kernel, the rules based on society rules called COPYRIGHT, and rules DECIDED by the AUTHORS that decided WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR OWN WORK. So please go show your bi-speak somewhere else, this is a development list, not a "failed mad politician list". Simo. -- Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> Sr Software Engineer Base Operating Systems Red Hat Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
