On 15 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Somehow, somwhere, somwehn the human race (or part thereof) came up with > the weird notions that ideas can be owned. The idea that ideas can be
Someone already pointed out that ideas cannot be copyrighted. There is a distinction between an idea, and the implementation of an idea. Most postings in this thread seem intent on blurring this distinction. Blurring the distinction muddles the issue. > somehow owned is downright stupid, even for no other reason other then > that no idea stands alone on its own right. If I come up with a new idea > it is based on a thousand others whehter I admit to that or not. The > algorythm I invented is based on several ideas that people worked hard > to think about but weren't so bloody greedy as to try to force other > people to pay them a buck each time they use it. > The old excuse of'ok, but what will all thos einventor eat if we can all > use their ideas for free' is downright dumb in light of all the ideas > that people *have* thought of and published. Genetics, Mathematics, > Computers, Algorythms are all made up from ideas of other people who > gave them to the world. > > Gilad. > > > > > Ely Levy > > > > > > On 15 Jul 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > no I don't have anything against GPL only against idea leechers. > > > > > > Like Linus leeched Linux from the UNIX design? > > > Like Stallman leeched gcc from AT&T labs? > > > Like Larry Wall leeched Perl from the UNIX utilities? > > > Like GIMP leeched from Photoshop? > > > Like Miguel leeched midnight commander from norton commander? > > > > > > Yeah, those idea leechers should be killed! > > > Hell, killing's too good them, they should be tortured, and *than* killed. > > > > > > If youuse someone else's idea, why, it's as though you came to his house, > > > raped his mother and sister, killed his father, set fire to it, and then > > > danced around the fire! Only worse! > > > > > > We should all just use our own ideas, and never read or see what someone > > > else did, and if we do (*by mistake*) learn of someone else's idea we should > > > forget it immediately. If we can't forget, we must approach that person and > > > offer him large sums of money to sell us a license to keep the idea in our > > > heads. > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Thanks, Uri http://translation.israel.net ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
