On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Cees de Groot wrote:
> (I've been thinking often that Cincom probably may have some legal clubs
> to swing at Squeak as well, b/c of all the VW users that have looked at
> VW source code and then modified Squeak).
> 
> Which all goes to show that the whole concept of 'Intellectual Property'
> completely breaks down in circumstances like these. 

" There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the term "intellectual
  property," because information isn't transferred between brains: it's
  copied.  " -- Charles Stross

But, of course, the reaction of a company would be to claim that simply
anything in the brain of the employee is property of the company.

          Marcus



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