Imagine claiming thought as property... what kind of world would that create? (looks around observantly). OH! I SEE! Mental slavery and slow technological and cultural process: by discouraging creatitivity, slowing human advancement considerably. AND increased monopoly power, which aborts any would-be competion with make-believe legal decrees; driving prices to the maximum, far beyond the prices that could be bartered in a free society.
Wrong.
Ever notice that WD-40 has no generics?
That's because WD-40 was never patented--because that would require them to disclose how it's made.
Imagine claiming thought as property... what kind of world would that create? (looks around observantly). OH! I SEE! Mental slavery and slow technological and cultural process: by discouraging creatitivity, slowing human advancement considerably. AND increased monopoly power, which aborts any would-be competion with make-believe legal decrees; driving prices to the maximum, far beyond the prices that could be bartered in a free society.