Author: José Carlos
Date: 14:15:23 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 16:58:21, Uri Blass wrote: >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 That is part of the business, yes. Actually that is the part of the business where I work. But think about the software you use in your computer. How much of it is specific for you and how much is general purpose? Now think that all the programmers that worked in creating that general purpose software you use would be jobless. José C.
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