On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 17:51 +0200, Axel Schulz wrote:
What do you mean by ownership of speech? I never heard about this term. If we can first decide what this proposed concept means/is we have a better point of departure for our discussion.
If you permit ownership of software, you permit ownership of language. Computer programming languages are a language understood by computer programmers, who usually write it fluently enough to create works.
If you restrict and allow ownership of software, you effectively restrict programmers' freedom of speech :) Yes, really!
Hugs, Rui