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By Martin Brampton

Published: Tuesday 06 January 2004


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 ...



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