Re: [ARMini-support] Insignia / copyright manual
- From: "tim@xxxxxxxxx" <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 10:55:59 +0100
On 11 May 2018, at 11:07 pm, Jim Nagel <jimmini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote on 10 May:
Anyway, this is OT so I'll stop before someone objects... :-)
No, this isn't off-topic: I changed the subject line some way
upthread, because I for one think it's an important subject and needs
a public debate and a legislative rethink.
This could be interesting. I have only just finished a book where the author
insists that all copyright and patenting is bad because it restricts initiative
and therefore the growth of the economy. The only exception he allowed was
possibly in pharmaceuticals where the development costs are so massive and
lengthy that some security, the balance of a mere 20 years, of return is is
needed.
He included in his list of constrictors of the economy both land use planning
which raises prices and licensing control for sundry jobs and professions which
also raises prices.
Mind you he was primarily writing about the land of the Free, the US of A.
What he would think of practices this side of the Atlantic?
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