
By Martin Brampton
Published: Tuesday 06 January 2004
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Name
Cristian Nicola
Location
Germany
Occupation
system developer
Comment
I had been campaining for the past over 3 years for a similar idea - with not much success i have to admit it, altough things were a bit different.
My idea was envolving around the term of "public property", which would basically assume the transfer of private ownership to public ownership once a product reaches a certain level of "public usage". The product would still be copyrighted by original author, but its availability would be free.
The software industry is just the tip of the iceberg .. we can easely see most certainly similar problems in music industry or movies .. even in parmaceutical industry..
My personal opinion is that we need a radical rethink of the social organization ...
Surely the big companies would just use their lawe...
Anonymous
While this is an ok idea, why not just make everyt...
Dominic Tristram
In theory it would be easy to measure the market s...
David Sparkes
I had been campaining for the past over 3 years fo...
Cristian Nicola
Define "50% share"! By selecting the definition, y...
Jeremy Chatfield
Patents were intended to protect an inventor from ...
Anonymous
Cristian Nicola has the right idea. Once a product...
Brian Charlwood
Isn't this how Microsoft got big.
The old (MSDO...
Paul W
Innovation would surely suffer with this approach....
Anonymous
I, too, am concerned about the definition of "50% ...
Tom Hunt
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