And end to Intellectual Property...

[cj7hawk]

OK, I know a lot of people ( quite likely within this group ) won't agree to me, but I hope for a future without imaginary property.

Rarely even does IP law get used for anything positive. It's mostly just robber barons putting up tollbooths wherever they think they can get away with it.

It's quite likely that without IP laws, we would have commercial space travel and other similar technologies already.

For what it's worth I've written patents before ( One of my former bosses now owns the patent on the "Steering Wheel" an the "Formula for a circle" after a practical joke went awry and got patented... ) *sigh*...

But inventors usually do what they do because they love it and industrial secrets protect the most advanced technologies anyway.

And since I'm probably going to get lambasted for my comments, I'll throw in copyright for good measure. Copyright doesn't really help a lot of people in this digital day and age, except perhaps those who don't do anything creative to begin with. What few protections are needed should be wrapped up with moral rights and made impossible to transfer or lose... Ever... Corporations claiming ownership of everything destroys any real value that the original authors had for creating works in the first place. Royalties should be only owned by an individual or estate for the periods similar to originally proposed and then those works should be placed in the public domain.

Anyway, why Copyright and not IP to be protected? Because something has to exist to be copyrighted...

David.