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August 04, 2004
Them's fightin' ideas
About the same time I wrote about the notion of intellectual property, Slashdot ran another article covering Evan Brown's legally enforced forfeiture of his ideas to the kindly lawyers at Alcatel.
Property leads to fighting. Anyone surprised? (Not if you've ever watched young kids play with a toy everyone wants at once.)
Posted by Mark at August 4, 2004 08:36 AM