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. > > > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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