Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: Apple Employees Please Note Message-ID: Date: 16 Jun 89 04:11:01 GMT References: <8906080252.AA02091@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> <2376@internal.Apple.COM> <457@algor2.UUCP> <12038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 19 In-reply-to: captkidd@athena.mit.edu's message of 15 Jun 89 20:20:35 GMT In article <12038@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes, in part: In article <457@algor2.UUCP> jeffrey@algor2.UUCP (Jeffrey Kegler) writes, in part: > The eighth of these is "to promote the >progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to >authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and >inventions." ... [T]hat does not imply that the right to intellectual property does not exist. [The rest of his posting further argues his case.] The Constitution here dictates the means to be used to promote the progress of science and useful arts. It does not grant any rights to intellectual property. The Supreme Court and I disagree with your reading of this passage. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) A person who seeks peace using weapons will never find it. [Thanks, Clayton.]