No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)
Posted Dec 5, 2002 19:37 UTC (Thu) by
josh_stern (guest, #4868)
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No future in proprietary software (ZDNet) by proski
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No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)
What exactly is a "natural right"? Is it a natural right to restrict
others from entering your house? (what makes the house yours? did you
construct it?) Is it a natural right to restrict them from wandering
over your property? What about if you live on a long pleasant stretch
of sea shore? Sometimes people argue that digital copyright is much
less natural because the uniqueness of a copy is not limited by
physics/cost, but the argument could be exactly reversed: the author of
the copyrighted work added something new to the universe from nothing, so
one could say that she has more natural right to restrict how it is used
than someone who simply paid for a property title to something created by
nature that would exist and be used by someone whether or not the author
ever existed.
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