Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: [discuss] Open source software News

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-05-28 21:44:16 +0100 Timothy Baldwin 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> How do claim that patents, a form intelluctual propiery, and 
> therefore a form 
> of private propetry, are socialistic?

They "nationalise" the intellectual property by publishing the idea, 
with a time-limited monopoly on the patented thing being given to the 
holder as "payment", don't you think? In the long term, the patent is 
still there for all to read after the "payment" has been "spent".

Of course, mathematical methods are discovered expressions of natural 
relationships and not patentable inventions...

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