Private property & the cypherpunks list(s) (fwd)

[Declan McCullagh]

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