File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2000/avant-garde.0004, message 35


Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:30:32 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-pangea.ca>
Subject: Re: Digitalisation of things.


Property is Theft (or, at least, it was when I was in university  ;->  )

b


At 3:17 PM +0100 3/21/00, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
>What is it, that we have, when we have a piece of software, is it the
>idea, the right to use it, that is transfered, shrink, wrap, is it the
>thing, into which the computer has turned, the typewriter, the drawing
>table ?
>
>Habere licere was what the buyer got in roman law, no matter if it was
>stolen or not. Copies of software are as good as the original. The same
>thing. More than to have such a thing, the buyer doesnt want and the
>seller isnt expected to give. The owner of code shouldnt be treated better
>than the owner of things.
>
>
>
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