Re: Private property & the cypherpunks list(s) (fwd)
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
I am taking intellectual property rights from nobody. If anything I am giving unlimited intellectual rights to the material to humankind for posterity. Sorta cypherpunkish, don't you think?
I am amused by this. Jim's plan sounds much less cypherpunkish than collectivist. Communal property, ho! After all, workers have nothing to lose in this revolution but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite! -Declan
Declan McCullagh allegedly said:
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
I am taking intellectual property rights from nobody. If anything I am giving unlimited intellectual rights to the material to humankind for posterity. Sorta cypherpunkish, don't you think?
I am amused by this. Jim's plan sounds much less cypherpunkish than collectivist. Communal property, ho!
After all, workers have nothing to lose in this revolution but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite!
Ad hominems are so much fun, eh? -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: 5A 16 DA 04 31 33 40 1E 87 DA 29 02 97 A3 46 2F
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