On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, rekres <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:54 AM, David Scheidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Nothing political in my post. That intellectual property is a >> distortion of the free market is merely a fact. > > It seems to me that you are stating an opinion and claiming it is a > fact. I'd be interested in hearing the proof of your assertion, but > perhaps it'd be better to take it off-list...
No. It's not an opinion. It's the definition of intellectual property. IP is a monopoly granted by the state (or whatever proxy for the state exists) that allows the owner of the IP to extract a rent from the IP. In the absence of the protection granted by the state, there is no way to extract the rent. That makes it a distortion of the free market. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
