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=== Open-source movement ===
=== Open-source movement ===
Mr. [[Darl McBride]], head of the [[SCO Group]], attempted to allege, during the tortuous litigation of the case of ''SCO v. IBM'', that the [[open source]] movement amounted to an unconstitutional expropriation of intellectual property. This would be similar to Point Three. This was not entirely correct, because the [[GNU General Public License]] represents a truly voluntary intellectual common. However, [[Lawrence Lessig]] has long argued that [[patent]]s are counterproductive, because "information wants to be free," including information on inventions.
Mr. [[Darl McBride]], head of the [[SCO Group]], attempted to allege, during the tortuous litigation of the case of ''SCO v. IBM'', that the [[open source]] movement amounted to an unconstitutional expropriation of intellectual property. This would be similar to Point Three. This was not entirely correct, because the [[General Public License]] represents a truly voluntary intellectual common. However, [[Lawrence Lessig]] has long argued that [[patent]]s are counterproductive, because "information wants to be free," including information on inventions.
[[Benjamin Franklin]] never asked for any remuneration for any of his inventions or discoveries, all of which he cheerfully placed in the [[public domain]]. His theory was that [[God]] ordained the principles by which anything, even a thing devised by man, worked, and therefore asserting ownership of an invention was an attempt to assert ownership of God. Were he alive today, Franklin would no doubt be promulgating a General Public License for hardware, just as [[Richard Stallman]] promulgates the General Public License for software. [[Thomas Edison]] did not think in those terms, and probably holds the record for the highest number of patent applications filed by a single person.
[[Benjamin Franklin]] never asked for any remuneration for any of his inventions or discoveries, all of which he cheerfully placed in the [[public domain]]. His theory was that [[God]] ordained the principles by which anything, even a thing devised by man, worked, and therefore asserting ownership of an invention was an attempt to assert ownership of God. Were he alive today, Franklin would no doubt be promulgating a General Public License for hardware, just as [[Richard Stallman]] promulgates the General Public License for software. [[Thomas Edison]] did not think in those terms, and probably holds the record for the highest number of patent applications filed by a single person.