On Apr 12, 2005 10:21 AM, Michael O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At what time in history, have ppl ever done anything without some sort of > compensation (except slavery!). before there were dubloons, it was the > barter system. And before that, I suppose the caveman just outright stole > what he wanted (which is what the MPAA/RIAA calls all it's customers :)
Whether people do things for compensation is not the point. What DJA was saying is that the compensation doesn't always have to be *money*. And what I'd like to say is that the compensation doesn't have to be *perpetual*. I can be compensated for producing something, while not reasonably expecting to own the thing that I produced. I think that the lack of available business models that would work in a no-IP world doesn't mean a *thing* for whether or not IP is right or not. And, presuming we'd like to have works of the intellect available for our enjoyment and use, there's nothing that says a legal fiction of ownership thereof is the only way to bring them about. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
