Anti-IP folks remind me of the pro-hemp crowd. Sure, hemp should probably be legal. Maybe it really is environmentally friendly, and dirt cheap, and stronger than Kevlar (or whatever.) I'm still not going to take those claims seriously when I know that few (if any) hemp supporters could give a shit about making rope.
Why would the fact that some people enjoy smoking/eating marijuana invalidate or trivialize other uses of the plant? I don't follow your logic...
"Suddenly it was possible to get rich by having and developing ideas"
This also implies that getting rich is the most sought-after and valuable side-effect of having a good idea; this is the crux of the questions we are all asking today. Is IP valuable because it might make you super rich, or because you might make a nice living while improving the lives of billions of people who live on this planet?
NO WAY, DUDE! Marathon was so far ahead of Doom - Marathon had LOOK UP/DOWN... Marathon had TEAM PLAY. Marathon had MULTI-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTS, RAMPS and STAIRS. It even had Network Voice Taunting (or maybe that was M2) DOOM had none of this.
The last thing the world / net needs is "a new era of dominance" I want good tools that work well and play nice with others. Microsoft has never seemed interested in providing that, only in protecting their dominant position and restricting my choice by any means necessary. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Anti-IP folks remind me of the pro-hemp crowd. Sure, hemp should probably be legal. Maybe it really is environmentally friendly, and dirt cheap, and stronger than Kevlar (or whatever.) I'm still not going to take those claims seriously when I know that few (if any) hemp supporters could give a shit about making rope.
Why would the fact that some people enjoy smoking/eating marijuana invalidate or trivialize other uses of the plant? I don't follow your logic...
"Suddenly it was possible to get rich by having and developing ideas"
This also implies that getting rich is the most sought-after and valuable side-effect of having a good idea; this is the crux of the questions we are all asking today. Is IP valuable because it might make you super rich, or because you might make a nice living while improving the lives of billions of people who live on this planet?
NO WAY, DUDE! Marathon was so far ahead of Doom - Marathon had LOOK UP/DOWN... Marathon had TEAM PLAY. Marathon had MULTI-LEVEL ENVIRONMENTS, RAMPS and STAIRS. It even had Network Voice Taunting (or maybe that was M2) DOOM had none of this.
The last thing the world / net needs is "a new era of dominance" I want good tools that work well and play nice with others. Microsoft has never seemed interested in providing that, only in protecting their dominant position and restricting my choice by any means necessary. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I loved Shaft, but it had one HUGE problem... SHAFT DOES NOT GET LAID! WTF?