Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:58:21 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 16:52:16, José Carlos wrote: >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. I think that even if people are allowed to copy programs there will be jobs for programmers because part of the work of programmers is simply selling for a single customer and the single customer may want specific things so he cannot copy from other people who do not have the same needs. Uri
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