On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:55, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> This does not contradict my point: whether you are employed by a
> company or by a university, your employer owns the IP you
> produce. According to the article, this is the case since 1980 (when
> Bayh-Dole went into effect). The point of reference is 1980 throughout
> the article. Nothing new.
IANAL but I think this is not true automaticaly but rather, most
contracts have a spcific section that makes this so, but it is not the
default case, just the common one.
> Concerns about "de-commoditization" existed long ago. Vint Cerf wrote
> (no pointer at hand, sorry, but I did read it) that the Internet
> (another DARPA baby) was consciously designed in such a way (fully
> distributed) that it would be exceedingly difficult for a single
> commercial entity to gain control over it.
You know, I think the real issues are not commrecial bodies or
otherwise. I think the real issue is about *control*. What Vint Cerf
understood, and is apperant in the design of the net, that 'control' in
the centralized form that it seems to take in most organization has very
hard limitation. Control in itself isn't good or bad, but centralized
control give rise to many problems and therefore it may or may not be
the most efficient way to do certain things., The problem is that most
people and organization tends to think control = centrelization.
--
Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV
Qlusters ltd.
"You got an EMP device in the server room? That is so cool."
-- from a hackers-il thread on paranoia
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