bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) (04/24/89)
From Ted Holden, HTE In all of the discussion of this topic recently, nobody has brought out what I see as the central question involved here: "How can we frame a law or system of laws which would simultaneously guarantee individual artists the rights to their own creations, companies the rights to their ligitimate developments, but prevent behemoths such as Apple Corp. from attempting to lay claim to air, earth, fire, water, and innumerable things which are basically computer software equivalents of ideas like controlling a four-wheeled vehicle via a wheel in front of the driver, and forcing us all to pay tribute for using any of the above?" Ted Holden HTE]