[Patents] more inflammatory speeches from Greg

[dmarti@zgp.org (Don Marti)]

begin PILCH Hartmut quotation of Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:28:57PM +0100:

>      URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/lancashire/index.html

Greg's summary doesn't match up to the text of the article very well.
To be fair, the title isn't very good. 

The article looks at the economic decision to participate in free
software development from the programmer's point of view, not the
company's.

Last sentence in the article:

"While this view may be less than wholly optimistic in its hopes
for man ever transcending industrial capitalism, it is perhaps
reassuring in concurring nonetheless with earlier critics that
regardless of how software is produced in the real world, its
increasing extensibility seems to be in the public interest and
should be encouraged where feasible."

Sounds like an argument in _favor_ of successive innovation to me.

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