On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:12 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> From: "SA" <s11131978 at gmail.com>
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> Copyright on music or prose creates above-normal profit just as much as
> a patent on a machine does. In both cases profit is higher because the
> inventor/writer is given a monopoly on production.
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> That's no reason to oppose either, incidentally.
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> Really? I oppose both. For the same reason that Jonas Salk gave away the polio vaccine.
You work for software companies. I write for a living. Very nice of Jonas Salk, but what are we to do?
Doug