---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:11:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]> To: Richard Stallman <[email protected]>
Richard: Well said! I couldn't agree more! -- Stevan > It's situations like this which make me feel like the boundary between > copyright and patents are narrower than most people think. But I'll > quit being an armchair IP expert now. On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > Copyrights and patents are so different that they have almost nothing > in common. The laws work differently, their effects are different, > and their origins are separate. So there is little one can validly > say about both together. Experts on copyrights and patents and > trademarks (whether armchair or not) can help the public understand > them by avoiding terms such as "intellectual property" that treat them > as a single topic. > > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more > explanation. > > [Steve would you forward this to the list?]
