> > 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?
I doubt anyone is asking you to selflessly exercise your personal discretion as Salk did, donating your rights to the commons.
However, there is no escaping the fact that such property rights manufacture scarcity which is both entirely artificial and contrary to the interests of the majority. A system which manufactures artifical human want is stupid and indefensible.
You defend your right to make a living from a vile system in the best way you can, yet that is not the issue. The question is rather whether the vile system is the best that we can hope for.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them."