Author: José Carlos
Date: 13:52:16 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 14:06:58, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 29, 2005 at 11:53:19, Roger Brown wrote: > >>> >>>But when you get your cash or your car stolen, you actually lose the property. >>> >>>When someone infringes on your intellectual property, you still have it. >> >> >> >>Hello Bo, >> >> >>I have heard this argument which is used to make the theft of intellectual >>property a different thing from the theft of physical property. > >Hello Roger, >I think that it is different and one of the reasons is that the society consider >it as different. > >Note for this discussion that I consider what you call "theft of intellectual >property" as immoral but I prefer not to use the word theft but simply use the >word piracy because I usually use the word theft for theft of physical property >that I consider as worse. > >I believe that most people who use computers in Israel are quilty of piracy and >the same for many countries and the society simply does not consider it the same >as theft of phsyical property. > >People are influenced by people in their environment and you cannot ignore it. >Even in theft of phsycal property I consider a person who decide about doing it >not because of learning from his environment as worse relative to a person who >learned it from his family and his friends. > >In the second case at least part of the fault is of his environment and probably >a lot of people who do not steal could steal in case that they were instead of >him. > > > > >> >>Personally, I think it is an absurd argument. >> >>In a decade or so are you aware that the most valuable property will be the >>product of our minds and not the car or the stereo or the computer? > >I do not know. >I thought also that maybe it is better to live in a world when there is no >intelectual property in software and people are free to copy every software(note >that I do not support doing it against the law and my thought about it was >simply about changing the law). > >Considering the fact that a lot of programmers develop free software not in >order to make money I am not sure if we are going to get inferior software in >this case. > >Uri The problem with this idea is that if all software is free, programming becomes a hobby (instead of a job), and programmers must find another way to earn money. I think that if programming was not a profesion anymore, the quality of software would decrease dramatically. José C.
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