From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 17:45:17 MDT
Oh boy. We should *wish* in our hearts that the Extropian list
could rise to this level of discussion.
First we have David H. Lynch Jr. writing to Steve Gillmor at
Infoworld (*who* is David H. Lynch anyway... I'm not connecting
the dots though I have a funny feeling I should be.)
"We the people ..."
Steve Gillmor
http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/10/07/021007opcurve.xml?Template=/storypages/printfriendly.html
*then* we have Lessig himself giving online commentary of his
thoughts of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court.
Lessig Blog Archives for October 2002
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2002_10.shtml#000531
The jury is still out but this will be an *interesting* one.
The /. discussion on the Lessig article is here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/13/1636205&mode=thread&tid=99º
(Those of you watching from the bleachers should note that I am
*for* legal support for patents and copyrights -- presumably a
non-libertinarian perspective. But in contrast to current trends
I am for a gradual shortening of copyright/patent protections to
accelerate the transfer of information into the public domain.
The reasons for this are two-fold -- (a) it reduces the length of time
during which advanced technology is only available to the "elite" and
not the "masses" and (b) it forces industry to become ever more
innovative [which seems compatible with the singularity]).
Faster, Cheaper, Better (or at least 2 out of 3).
Robert
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