<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:15 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be" target="_blank">michael.vancanneyt@wisa.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Stealing IP ? That depends on your point of view.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ownership is always a perspective issue. We all just try to carve out ownership. Patents offer a way to convert work product into other things.</div>
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My view is that IP itself is theft. The concept of IP is fundamentally flawed.<br>
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Knowledge should be free for all, and not 'owned' by someone for mere monetary gain.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. But the way in which problems are solved and solutions are brought to market should be somewhat sacred.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
IP is much like the church and its universal truths in the middle ages. I thought we got rid of those shackles, now we get other ones. Instead of church, we have large corporations.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree.</div>
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If someone found a cure for all kinds of cancer, and kept it for himself<br>
using the IP umbrella, I'd label him a criminal against humankind and send him to trial in The Hague.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not if he or she was a big pharma employee. They would be given a gold watch and a few high fives. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>