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**furillo** · 01-22-2012, 04:41 PM

To quote Bill Gates "Information WANTS to be FREE". The conventional connotation of the word 'property' has to do with tangibility, substance, physicality: something that occupies a particular place, at a particular time.

The very term 'intellectual property' is an oxymoron (a self contradictory statement) like 'Jumbo Shrimp' or 'Good Grief'.

Information, on the other hand, is abstract: 'it is both everywhere and nowhere' - in a word it is ubiquitous. Hence, the quote "information wants to be free" - good luck trying to make human LAWS to contain it, for you are only contravening the LAWS of 'nature'.

01-22-2012, 04:41 PM	#11
furillo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	To quote Bill Gates "Information WANTS to be FREE". The conventional connotation of the word 'property' has to do with tangibility, substance, physicality: something that occupies a particular place, at a particular time. The very term 'intellectual property' is an oxymoron (a self contradictory statement) like 'Jumbo Shrimp' or 'Good Grief'. Information, on the other hand, is abstract: 'it is both everywhere and nowhere' - in a word it is ubiquitous. Hence, the quote "information wants to be free" - good luck trying to make human LAWS to contain it, for you are only contravening the LAWS of 'nature'.
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