From: James Swayze (swayzej@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 03:04:17 MST
Timothy Bates wrote:
>
> As a disbeliever in patents, this article warmed my heart,
> http://www.around.com/patent.html
As a hopeful inventor can someone explain to me why patents are considered bad?
In a free capitalist society shouldn't an individual profit from their hard won
intellectual efforts? Is intellectual property worth less because it springs
sometimes so easily from the creative mind? Perhaps only manual labor is
considered of any value. Maybe I should tell my plumber I'm against paying for
his unique efforts and he should create an unleaky faucet for me for free?
James
-- "Quod de futuris non est determinata omnino veritas" NOSTRADAMUS 15TH Century
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