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From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace)
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Subject: Intellectual Property
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Date: 14 Aug 90 21:45:05 GMT
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   Date: 14 Aug 90 17:24:13 GMT
   From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)

   But by and large the way the system is supposed to work is that ownership
   is derived from creation/labour, and of course ownership gets traded.

People often call Stallman a Communist, but this is the first time
I've ever heard Marx's labour theory of value cited as a defense of
the "intellectual property" laws.

Unfortunately the synergism that capitalism provides is impeded by the
IP laws as they carrently are evolving.  How ironic if it turns out
that Free Software is the capitalist tool of the 90's!