Re: REALLY OT: News Flash
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On Monday 12 February 2007 20:17, Mike McCarty
<Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> was heard to say:
> BTW, Benjamin Franklin opposed Patents, argued against that clause
> of the Constitution, and placed all his discoveries and inventions
> in the Public Domain.
I'm not surprised. With the simple axiom that "any power granted to
government can, and will at some point, be abused", I think the
assumption of copyright and patent being "good" needs to be
readdressed.
Here's an interesting article on the subject, by someone I actually
tend to disagree with, but it raises very important points none the
less:
There's No Such Thing As a Free Patent
By Stephan Kinsella
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1763
"But the benefits that flow from the patent system are only half the
story, since the system also comes with costs. Even if we are going
to adopt a wealth-maximization criterion (which is, admittedly,
problematic),[2] we must compare the costs to the benefits to know
whether the system is worth having at all."
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September 11th, 2001
The proudest day for gun control and central
planning advocates in American history
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