IP: Re: Software Engineering, Dijkstra, and Hippocrates: ]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 09:48:43 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu, ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
>From: Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>
>Subject: Re: IP: Re: Software Engineering, Dijkstra, and Hippocrates: ]


> >>Copyright and other forms of intellectual property were not created in
>order to benefit publishing companies.
>
>The points you raised apply to the current practice of protecting
>intellectual property via copyright laws, courts and lawyers as
>distinct from via technology, which is what
>http://virtualschool.edu/mybank is about.
>
>Protection via lawyers means that each and every transaction is
>risky, problematic, and costly, but most of all that the protection
>is only available to those with large legal staffs.
>
>Protecting via technology extends the protection to both large
>players and ordinary folk.  Joe Sixkpack can publish digital property
>by combining his own content with other objects  purchased from
>others, with the ensemble protected via technology instead of
>copyright law, courts and lawyers.
>
>This could support the kind of market forces that underlie mature
>manufacturing domains. Leaving it up to altruism and reputation
>economies will keep us reinventing the wheel. What is the alternative
>to reinventing the wheel if nobody can sell wheels?



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