Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:08:29 02/17/99
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Hi Dan: Yes, what a happyness to return to discussing again!!! Well Dan, we certainly have different conceptions about property. I know you are right in the strict legal, formal sense in many of the points you have made, but not being myself a lawyer I am not compelled to act or behave or think according strictly to them, neither to confuse a legal definition as a true, philosophical, deep, eternal definition of the Being. Ideas are of nobody in my opinion, no matter you was the first guy to formulate them. Yes, there is a payment to the first guy, money, fame, etc, but in strict sense Humanity is the owner, the entity that made possible even the language with which we think, to begin with. My articles? They are something different because they are terminated, definite, dead things in a sense. And the meaning of this kind of things is not to perform a feat in chess or any other task where what matters is perfomance, but the thing in itself, measured in his own terms. A poem is not "more poetic" than another, just different and better or worst according to taste of the reader, but not "more" or "less". Of course literature is anyway a process and then a guy can take some of my methods, techniques and apply them in his work, etc. That's the way writers begins his careers, taking ideas and methods of other guys. A great french poet said that a new writer should begin ever copying "as the only way to become himself". Paradoxical but true. Programming is not a terminated thing, programs are. So when you take the source of a program you are really taking something from a terminated product -and then your reasonning is OK- but as much that program is at the same time just a part of a general process of programming and as much you take all that for becoming a new link in that process, then the same conception about stealing, abuse, etc are not anymore so definitive. I want to belive that the first part of the equation, to take from the terminated product, is less important than the second, to become a new link in the chain of progfress. Of course sometiomes that does not happens, maybe rarely happens, BUT the likelihood to this last thing to happes is what matters. as Bible said: "I will save Sodoma even if this little number of decent people live there". I say: let Crafty be freefor the sake of the few decent guys that wiill use it to make another jump to the future. Greetings from astroship Damnation Fernando
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