RE: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

["John M. Purser" <jmpurser@comcast.net>]

Excellent!

Thanks for the post.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Watson [mailto:cjwatson@debian.org]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:45 PM
To: Debian Users List
Cc: Antonio Rodriguez
Subject: Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that
> have been patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the
> world would be if Pythagoras (or some group) had patented his theorem?
> If these forces that want to convert the thought world into a bazaar
> succeed, we may be facing a world darker than the worst nightmare.

I highly recommend reading "Melancholy Elephants":

  http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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