Quote from: bitcoin2cash on August 29, 2011, 09:37:33 PM

Quote from: Hawker on August 29, 2011, 09:24:18 PM

Its very aggressive to say that you have some ideology that says people have no right to create structures to encourage research.

Which is more aggressive, reading a chemical formula, buying the raw ingredients, mixing them together and selling the resulting product or waiting for someone to do that and then confiscating the product, by force if necessary? If I write some idea down using my pen and my paper, isn't it more aggressive to demand that you now control my piece of paper simply because it contains an idea that you originated?

Surely that depends where you started from? And we are not talking about the product of individual work - we are talking about serious research with labs and teams of researchers or developers.

If we are in a society where research is desired and I have invested money based on the intellectual property rights I will own if my investment generates a new useful product, then its aggression on your part to open a factory and sell the product I have invented. I'd lose my investment. You are free to do your own research and invent your own product. But not to copy mine.

The important point here is freedom. We all exist in societies. We can move between societies. It is raw aggression on the part of someone who dislikes intellectual property to say they will deprive the rest of society of its freedom to have innovative research.