OK, let's say I spend a bunch of money on chemistry research and come up with a great new drug. Should I be able to patent that, so that I can make my money back?
Ahhh! You have discovered the fundamental flaw in capitalism! It's just about making money. Making money for who, you ask? The people who had money to fund the research in the first place.
As most of you should be capable of realizing, this is ultimately destructive. We need to figure out some way to make civilization work when our interests are simply human progress and personal happiness. Perhaps something like a gift economy, eco-economics, or cooperatives.... sound familiar? Why it's the very foundation of Free Software!
Don't worry about specs being open; QuickTime 4 is going to be the next MPEG standard. And Real's bloated G2 server can rot. Has anyone used one of these? It starts up a half dozen processes each allocating ~270meg of RAM. Of course it isn't all swapped in, but when traffic goes up on these things, it can get ugly.
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OK, let's say I spend a bunch of money on chemistry research and come up with a great new drug. Should I be able to patent that, so that I can make my money back?
Ahhh! You have discovered the fundamental flaw in capitalism! It's just about making money. Making money for who, you ask? The people who had money to fund the research in the first place.
As most of you should be capable of realizing, this is ultimately destructive. We need to figure out some way to make civilization work when our interests are simply human progress and personal happiness. Perhaps something like a gift economy, eco-economics, or cooperatives.... sound familiar?
Why it's the very foundation of Free Software!
Don't worry about specs being open; QuickTime 4 is going to be the next MPEG standard.
And Real's bloated G2 server can rot. Has anyone used one of these? It starts up a half dozen processes each allocating ~270meg of RAM. Of course it isn't all swapped in, but when traffic goes up on these things, it can get ugly.