[microsound] [ot] RMS on "Intellectual Property"

[Phil Thomson <philthom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The man who helped bring us the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" on a problematic term 
for producers of digital culture:

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/27/189204

byte: '...it is a mistake to replace "intellectual property" with any 
other term. A different name could eliminate the bias but won't address 
the term's deeper problem: overgeneralization. There is no such unified 
thing as "intellectual property." It is a mirage, which appears to have a 
coherent existence only because the term suggests it does.'

P


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