[ExI] Problem with Pattents

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 03 March 2008, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> > ### I am warmly supportive of open-source programming, and any
> > donation of intellectual property to the public domain. However, the
> > vast majority of useful products involve *toil* rather than fun which
> > is why most people making them want to get paid.
>
> The vast majority of useful products do not involve toil.


### Lol!

And again lol!

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> > ### Indeed, Intellectual property does not have the "exclusivity
> > property" that is inherent in most forms of tangible and some
> > intangible property. This is a true difference, however  it is not
> > substantive to my argument. Can you elaborate on why do you think
> > that lack of exclusivity is a decisive argument against IP?
>
> What? So you want to propose that intellectual property is a new
> classification of neuronal structures in the brain and to somehow
> guarantee a strict novelty law in the DNA hooked up to a centralized
> server so that there is absolute exclusivity? I don't see how this
> would be helpful. It would be quite distracting, honestly.


### Centralized server? Where did you get that?

Rafal
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