Re: [Fsfe-uk] MSN Thought Thieves

[Alex Hudson]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 10:50 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> I'm not sure that *no* IP is a good way to protect societal rights regarding 
> IP.  The issue is that IP should belong to all of society, rather than to 
> individuals and corporations, imho.

If individuals/corps don't own "IP rights", who does, and how does that
differ from no-one owning them?

> > Obviously, there is an issue with winners being required to sign over IP
> > rights to Microsoft, but this project would be done with the intention
> > that we wouldn't win.
> 
> I can't see any way to participate in this without legitimising Microsoft's 
> unethical approach to IP

How does attempting to show up their motives legitimise them? It is
better to let this pass without any comment?

Cheers,

Alex.