Intellectual "PROPERTY"

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sat Jan 18 03:45:01 2003

 Reading classiccmp today I wanted to puke. I'm sorry,
I'm with Stallman, fuck the corporate spin-doctors.

 In the real world ideas are free and even Bob Dylan was
noted for his free use of others material. "Intellectual
PROPERTY" ? That's a lawyer's and corporate term.
Meaning the extension of material possession law to
ideas cause lord knows they've got property rights
down to a science. The pharmaceutical companies
almost patented the human genone but were prevented
by a few alert clinicists. Monsanto is busy trying to tie
up our very grain foodstuff, our health is held ransom to
the corporations. And some little sucks that hope they
can emulate Bill Gates are peddling this game ?

 Sony, MCA, and the music conglomerates got their
"copyrights" by stealing the songs from the musicians
and composers for the most part. There's a long history
of poor jazz and blues musicians behind all those songs.
 And even McCartney and Jagger will admit that they
copied American blues musicians in what they did.

 These sterling words that the creator of some idea should
benefit from his creation are simply bullshit to provide
cover for the suits who do benefit. For the most part they
paid a (barely) living wage to the artists who did actually
do the creative part, whether songster, cartoonist, writer,
or coder. Even Edison and his company ripped off Tesla.

Damn, what has the impersonality of computers wrought ?

 A generation of egocentric, alienated, individualists with
some sort of subjective morality ? It's OK to do a bad
thing if it furthers my objectives ?

 A world I never made ! GNU forever !

 Alt 2600 is looking good if I can just get by the spelling,
the ingenuity, and "z" for "s".

 Get a new suit and eat more. You'll still die eventually.

Lawrence


Live life like you're never_gonna-die
Love like you've never been hurt
Dance and sing like no-one is watcing or listening
And rejoice in our creation.

lgwalker_at_mts.net
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Received on Sat Jan 18 2003 - 03:45:01 GMT

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