From: "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T12:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: 7 Ruby Programming ebook

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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:27 +0900, Patrick Aljord wrote:

> Ok so because leaders are incompetent I should just wait for democracy
> to come one day and stay ignorant in the meantime? That's weird.



You are dealing with people, Patrick, who build up a huge head of
righteous indignation while forgetting that the USA, at the turn of the
20th century, didn't respect foreign copyright.  "Intellectual property
protection" only started becoming an issue in the USA when they had some
worth protecting.  Now they don't want any other countries to use the
same techniques they did to bootstrap.

But really, copyright is off-topic I would suspect.  We should probably
continue this discussion off-list.

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
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is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:27 +0900, Patrick Aljord wrote:
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You are dealing with people, Patrick, who build up a huge head of righteous=
 indignation while forgetting that the USA, at the turn of the 20th century=
, didn't respect foreign copyright.&nbsp; &quot;Intellectual property prote=
ction&quot; only started becoming an issue in the USA when they had some wo=
rth protecting.&nbsp; Now they don't want any other countries to use the sa=
me techniques they did to bootstrap.<BR>
<BR>
But really, copyright is off-topic I would suspect.&nbsp; We should probabl=
y continue this discussion off-list.<BR>
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<B>Michael T. Richter</B> &lt;<A HREF=3D"mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmri=
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<I>There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make=
 it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way i=
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