- From: Renato golin <renato@ebi.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:41:16 +0000
- To: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xmlhacker.com>
- CC: John Milton <swdemon1981@yahoo.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, SW-forum Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
M. David Peterson wrote: > Technology is both an act of invention and an act of refinement. There is no invention, only refinement. Everything you invented was already invented, only not patented. The universe is just an expression of its intimate laws. Everything on top of that (like a fractal) will be another expression on top of the basic ones. What you are is only another form of expression and like you, your brain. When you were born you had a few hard-coded (by nature through natural selection) instructions and *everything* you saw later already existed in nature. Therefore, as your brain was selected by nature and what you learn comes from nature, the ultimate owner of *ALL* ideas is nature itself, and because nature has no bank account we store its money on our own by creating a very stupid idea like patents. When will people learn that copyright, patents, intellectual property [1], anti-piracy, RIAA and the like is *ONLY ABOUT MONEY*? There is no ideals, ideas, thoughts, anything. All legal techniques are ways to protect your *money* not your ideas, for ideas are recurrent, inherent and natural. You can sue me because you have a patent and I implemented the same thing, only later, but you *CAN'T* sue me because I had the same idea as you had. Finally, I'm not in this list because I want financial return or I think that my ideas will be implemented by W3C so I can further sue them. I'm not spending my time here because I think there will be money or a job or prizes in return. I'm here to make this world a better place and, for a change, people could stop suing each other for something they were naturally selected to do. best regards, --renato [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
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