Why exactly do we want ot prevent the copying of stuff?

[Phi_est_aureum]

It’s impossible. It’s like trying to stomp on someone’s flowers without trespassing.

Isn’t it more like capturing pollen from someone’s flowers blown by the wind and making a clone in their own property?

[michel92]

@Phi est aureum

Isn’t that a contract over someone’s will, thus, invalid?

You will have to forgive me, I am, indeed, no expert by any means on contracts. But if the contract were like, “KFC will offer a tour of its facilities, and in exchange, all consenting tourists agree to give KFC royalties for any future business venture(s) in which the consenting tourist engages in competition of chicken restauranteurin,” would this be more acceptable? This way anyone that plans to open up a restaurant selling fried chicken would be obliged to decline a tour from KFC?

Oh, neither am I. I read it somewhere, and it makes sense (that the only valid contracts are contracts that involves property titles). Your other example may be valid, though. I’m not sure.

[Nielsio]

How Linux is Built

How Linux is Built

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Jim Zemlin interviewed by Jeremy Allison

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, 14 June 2012

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

[ClaytonB]

SaaS only works with the situation where the client doesn’t mind giving up his secrets to the server. Bank-clearing transactions could never be handled with SaaS… the data being transacted is much more valuable than the IP being protected by the SaaS operator. Theoretically, you can use cryptography to solve the problem, at least, to a degree.

Clayton -

[DanielMuffinburg]

@Clayton

SaaS only works with the situation where the client doesn’t mind giving up his secrets to the server. Bank-clearing transactions could never be handled with SaaS… the data being transacted is much more valuable than the IP being protected by the SaaS operator. Theoretically, you can use cryptography to solve the problem, at least, to a degree.

Clayton -

In that case, the bank could develop its own software.

[DanielMuffinburg]

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@Daniel Muffinburg

I don’t know why “we” want to, but Microsoft might want to do it to lower the supply to obtain higher prices.

So this thread is to help Microsoft […]

Yes rolls eyes

maintain an artificial damper on innovation and the spread of ideas?

What’s artificial about it?

I’d like an answer to my question!!!

[Phi_est_aureum]

Well, wouldn’t something like SaaS be considered an organic/natural/legitimate means to keep ideas secret, and thus, an organic damper on innovation and the spread of ideas. On the other hand, the state being an illegitimate and immoral creation, and it’s granting of patents and copyrights, on what some may consider to be a misnomer, of “intellectual property,” this sort of damper on innovation and the spread of ideas is based on the false right of the use of force granted by monopoly rights, and thus, may be considered by some to be artificial, as opposed to organic.