1997-02-15 - Re: Private property & the cypherpunks list(s) (fwd)

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Message Hash: ef1dd86b415ac704d91081517878cfd07b97f16347d043506ea61d84943d992d
Message ID: <199702150113.RAA20407@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-02-15 01:13:18 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:13:18 -0800 (PST)

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:13:18 -0800 (PST)
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Subject: Re: Private property & the cypherpunks list(s) (fwd)
Message-ID: <199702150113.RAA20407@toad.com>
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Declan McCullagh allegedly said:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> > I am taking intellectual property rights from nobody. If anything I am
> > giving unlimited intellectual rights to the material to humankind for
> > posterity. Sorta cypherpunkish, don't you think?
> 
> I am amused by this. Jim's plan sounds much less cypherpunkish than
> collectivist. Communal property, ho!
> 
> After all, workers have nothing to lose in this revolution but their
> chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite! 

Ad hominems are so much fun, eh?

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
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