Well, what a whole load of freely given information my original posting
provoked! :-[
Dave
PS. A final (please) thought Money is a sign of poverty (in case I get accused of IP theft, this
is a Culture quote from Iain M. Banks)
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On 22/09/2011 00:52, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
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The only point I wanted to make is that the very concept of 'property',
of 'owning' things makes sense only if it is recognised by others -
it is a social agreement and not a law of nature.
Well, lets look at that a bit more closely. Many people
RD's analysis was very interesting. But about Informantion wants to be
free: People certainly deserve protection for the value of their
intellectual work. But greed transforms this plausible principle
often enough into abuse.
Let me give an example: Scientific research papers and
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote:
On 22/09/2011 00:52, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
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The only point I wanted to make is that the very concept of 'property',
of 'owning' things makes sense only if it is recognised by others -
it is a social agreement and not a law of
Sorry, ... but: No.
It would be useful if people replied to the points posted,
and not to what they wished people (seeming, regarded as
opponents;-( had said.
Michael
On 22/09/2011 15:32, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote:
On 22/09/2011
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On 22/09/2011 18:38, Robert Greene wrote:
Wonderful! The whole point of science is
to give the information to other people.
Scientists have done and do just this, all the time - primarily to
fellow scientists. On top of their myriad internal channels they have
arXiv (open access),
