tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post5615053508385115948..comments2024-03-22T12:20:48.920+00:00Comments on open...: Fashion Industry Repeats Software's MistakesGlyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-6206714753798543052009-06-06T12:56:41.998+00:002009-06-06T12:56:41.998+00:00Yes, strange how the lawyers always seem to benefi...Yes, strange how the lawyers always seem to benefit....Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-40203132248246229592009-06-06T12:47:39.874+00:002009-06-06T12:47:39.874+00:00What do most people do when smooth talking lawyers...What do most people do when smooth talking lawyers come up to them and say <em>"Thou art naked and feeble, and deserving of the protection I shall provide to you as a gift. With this armour and this sword you shall make all your enemies submit to your will. From this subjugation shall come wealth beyond your dreams"</em>?<br /><br /><em>"Gee thanks. I'll take 'em!"</em><br /><br />Who profits? The lawyer.<br />Who thinks they're better off? The fashion designer.<br />Who loses? Everyone.<br /><br />The 'protection' provided to all is at the cost of liberty withheld from all. Copyright and patent are inefficient market intereferences that provide no net gain except to lawyers and those who amass the transferable privileges.<br /><br />How can you tell a fashion designer that laws that magically prevent competition are actually snake oil? That all that ends up happening is that all fashion designers suddenly find balls and chains on their ankles, i.e. far less artistic freedom.<br /><br />This is not new. Monopolies that pretend to confer exclusive rights out of thin air have been recognised as bunkum for centuries:<br /><br />From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man#Concepts" rel="nofollow">WikiPedia - Rights of Man</a>:<br /><em>Human rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges:<br />It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect — that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few . . . They . . . consequently are instruments of injustice.<br />The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.</em><br /><br />Nature imbues us with rights. Governments may attempt to grant them, but they cannot. They can only grant privileges at the expense of annulling the complementary rights in the majority.Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.com