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Skriven 2005-11-20 03:42:46 av Adam (1:379/45)
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From: Adam <mmmmm_beer_mmmm_donuts@moes>

Firstly Yaaaaaayyyy for NX......

NX runs over ssh......you get ssh for free over wifi at (at least) Ohare
& Atlanta...it would appear ...cough cough....

Sit by the "exec lounges" & try & look relaxed....

I'm now using my machine in North Yorkshire to browse the web.....I can then
"mail myself" stuff of interest....

anyway...back to the main feature....

The backlash gathers strength.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1646125,00.html

"The difference between ideas and things is obvious as soon as someone hits you
over the head with an idea - so obvious that until recently it was entirely
clear to the law. Things could have owners and ideas could not. Yet this simple
distinction is being changed all around us. Ideas are increasingly treated as
property - as things that have owners who may decide who gets to use them and
on what terms."


"Science was one of the first fields in which the confusion of ideas with
things became apparent and damaging. It has always been one in which ideas and
techniques were freely shared. You might say that any scientific experiment is
worthless until it has been copied - if it can't be repeated, it isn't
scientific. Scientific papers, too, measure their influence by how often they
are copied or quoted in others. But as the practice of science has grown more
expensive, and more commercial, so has the pressure to patent everything. The
public project that sequenced the human genome, led by Sir John Sulston and Bob
Waterston, defined itself as in opposition to patenting data. This wasn't just
an idealistic stance. They were convinced that without freely available data
the work would flow less swiftly, if at all, and that the results would be very
much less useful. In fact, the so-called private project run by Craig Ventner
used a method that relied on the availability of publicly sequenced data as a
springboard for the short cuts it took.

Sulston now, after his Nobel prize, spends much of his time campaigning for
public access to scientific knowledge and its fruits. In a world where material
goods are so unevenly distributed, the effort to lock up ideas and intellectual
riches as well seems to him quite monstrous. The struggle over patents in
science and technology is"


"This is madness. Ideas aren't things. They're much more valuable than that.
Intellectual property - treating some ideas as if they were in some
circumstances things that can be owned and traded - is itself no more than an
idea that can be copied, modified and improved. It is this process of freely
copying them and changing them that has given us the world of material
abundance in which we live. If our ideas of intellectual property are wrong, we
must change them, improve them and return them to their original purpose. When
intellectual property rules diminish the supply of new ideas, they steal from
all of us."

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