Re: Lisp is Sin

Cameron MacKinnon <cmackin+nn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> David Golden wrote:
>> With the important difference that no one would have the legal right to
>> stop people building stuff. It's the "I'm the only person on the beach
>> allowed build sandcastles, STOMP!" of patent law I object to most
>> strongly. My pro-free-market economic concerns are thoroughly secondary
>> to my concerns over essential liberty.
>
> I'll accept your essential liberty to steal my ideas and use them
> without recompense if you accept my essential liberty to brain you
> with a cudgel when I catch you doing it.
>
>> FWIW my own position is that there
>> should be a free market. That would mean neither committee nor patent
>> office.
>
> So no market at all then, except in goods? This idea that producer of
> mere goods is the noble ideal to which we should all aspire, and that
> producers of ideas are somehow idlers or town buskers or doomed to
> salaried positions within producers-of-goods corporations is two
> hundred years out of date. While the assembly line labourers toiled
> on, knowledge workers and symbol manipulators have created a vast
> economy whose linchpin is a market in legally protected ideas. This
> economy is now comparable in size to the manufacturing economy in
> several countries, including Ireland, and it has been largely
> responsible for the significant quality of life improvements that much
> of humanity experienced during the twentieth century.

What does any of this have to do with Lisp?

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Bill Atkins
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