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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Copyrights and wrongs...
Message-ID: <406@white.gcm>
Date: 20 Feb 88 07:10:23 GMT
References: <6999@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <102@logi-dc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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How people can jump into the middle of a converation without having read any
of the previous articles is amazing.  Is there any points this guy makes that
(Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) hasn't covered.

Are people getting the feeling there isn't anything new to say on this subject?

In article <102@logi-dc.UUCP> joe@logi-dc.UUCP (Joe Dzikiewicz) writes:
>
=Removing intellectual property rights would remove all incentive
=for companies to put money into research and development.  After
=all, why should Spacely Sprockets put millions into developing 
=a new widget when Amalgamated Amalgamations could turn around, 
=produce the same kind of widget, and save itself the development
=costs?  
Are you talking IBM clone?

=If a programmer did not own what he produced, who would 
=pay him to produce it?  

At our company the programmers don't own anything they produce.  The company
doesn't care who owns it either.  They only care about using it.  I doubt
the fact that somebody else is using our accounting software lowers the 
values of ours.  We produced it because we wanted it.