[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Mon Jan 23 23:09:34 PST 2012


"foobar" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message 
news:gaeafbliswzwkmitpghj at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>
> IP can't be evil, it's the basic protocol of the internet ;)
> seriously though, the term IP is highly misleading and doesn't have a hold 
> in (legal) reality. It's a collection of unrelated laws with separate 
> agendas and purposes: copyright, patent, trademarks. Each individual law 
> *supposed to* make sense, but at a whole they really don't. Yes, it is 
> perfectly legitimate for an author/artist/musician/font creator/etc to 
> want to be paid and they really should be. it is not hover at all 
> legitimate that a book publisher/record company/etc be paid if that 
> business model isn't justified anymore in the market place. Forcing those 
> on the market when they aren't necessary is the true meaning of evil. I 
> also disagree that it's the companies' fault. They simply want to make 
> money. That their purpose. The government is the responsible party to set 
> the rules for corporations and not vice versa and the US government is 
> completely at fault for this huge mess. It's like children setting the 
> rule for their parents.

I'm not entirely convinced that the US gov isn't effectively a corporate 
puppet.




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