[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[Yan King Yin]

From: cat13 at illrepute.org

>> >> As I pointed out before, IP does not prevent disclosure or
>> >> publication, it actually facilitates openness.
>> >
>> >I hope you do know that there is a big difference between the intentions
>> >of GNU and patents.
>> 
>> I do respect the open-source folks' wish to make software freely
>> available. Not only do they want to give out free software but
>> they also *want* to see more of it happen. But software takes
>> effort to create, and I don't see why it's superior to make a
>> profit out of something else such as maintenance. 
>
>I haven't read it, but I understand that The Cathedral and the Bazaar
>addresses this question (the short answer being "better end product"):
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

Maybe the end-product will be better, but the reward
system is problematic. Precisely it is because of the
adoption of an open reward system (being nothing!) that
the end-product can be fine tuned by a lot of people.
So clearly there is a trade-off.

As I pointed out before, one can always give reasons to
justify one's own approach and easily point out problems
in others. It really is a "who gets which slice of the pie"
problem, and I think every grown up person must realize
there is no simple answer. The problem is whether people
are willing to compromise to arrive at a workable solution.
And I'm proposing such a possibility.

YKY


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