[free-sklyarov] Limited and Unlimited Resources

DeBug debug at centras.lt
Thu Jul 26 02:22:04 PDT 2001


1)
When i create a copy of information i do not steal that information.
You still can make use of that information.

When i crack a program i do not damage original one.
People still can use original program instead of cracked one
Original program owner can still further develope it.
It is up to consumers to decide which product to use

2)
copyrights and patents system is faulty (has inner contradictions)
and public should reject it completely.
The key question to be answered in order to resolve the problems
with copyrights is:
What is more important - the right to compete or the private property
If we answer this question we can decide what to do with copyrights
Now i dare to state that private property has inner contradictions in it
and the right to compete has not. Let's discuss it:

The essence is that unlimited resources
(all kinds of unmaterial values) such as information does not
require the notion of private property. If you open any book on
macroeconomics right on the first pages you will read something like that:
"Since resources are limited there is a need for private property"
The fundamental law for me is *the right to compete*
If resources/*means of production* are limited we have to decide
who is going to operate them. We cannot allow everyone to
possess/operate because we have limited quantity of resources.
If i try to steal resources from you i violate
*the right to compete* law because you will not be able to make use of these
resources. This have led many people to think private property
is fundamental. What we see here is that *the right to compete*
does not contradict itself and in case of limited resources it
introduces the notion of private property.
if resources are unlimited i do not violate your right to compete with me
when i steal some of those resources. There are still plenty of them.
why to keep claiming private property rights and restrict *the right to compete*
where we can allow everyone to compete.
The essence of private property is to restrict the right to compete
Who is going to decide that you operate your property good enough ?
The market, namely your competitors. But if you grab all the resources
available there is no space for competition. This is
the inner contradiction in the notion of private property

3) Here is an example
by copying your source code (that you treat as your intellectual property)
i do not steal it from you. You still can further develope your
source code and use it as mean of production. What i really steal from
you is the NEEDS OF PEOPLE. But the needs of people does not belong to
manufacturer, they naturally belong to consumers
dot com industry problems just revealed that market of needs belong to consumers

4) One more issue to be adressed here. One person wrote me the following:
> In my field, if I develop a patentable idea, my employer has a right
> to patent it (or share in the patent -- depending on the terms of my
> employment, IIRC).  This is primarily because they pay me to develop
> a product on "their time".

Here is how i answered him:

It is they (your employers) who decide to invest money and the risks of investment
should be their too. Public should not be responsible for
your employers' risks and government should not support their patents
Your employers can only ask or sign a treaty with you that you will keep
information in secret. But government should clearly say
that if information went to public noone is going to protect
their "patented" information. I think this would be honest from both sides
( i mean government and employers ) to clearly state NO PATENTS, NO COPYRIGHTS
Personally i am ready to accept these rules and act according to them
if i find my intellectual property stolen i will not go to court because
i understand some people can pay and some cannot and that i am not the one
to decide if they are right or wrong. This is because my product by
their nature are unlimited in number.
If my products where limited in number there would be a question
who has more rights to use my product and the notion of social
garanties distributor naturally would be introduced.

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 DeBug                          mailto:debug at centras.lt
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