On 6/1/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But why do you accept the right of the authors of software to make money, yet deny the right of intellectual workers who create intellectual capital (such as *novel* algorithms that are *non-obvious*)?
If an algorithm is accompanied by an implementation, the people who created it can make money from that. An algorithm that is not accompanied by an implementation, and which other people are not free to use to create their own implementations, does not constitute capital - on the contrary, its value is negative, because it prevents other people from independently inventing it. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
