Rocko wrote:
>
> Tresy,
>
>   On IP and "society benefits, and few businesses profited, so what?"
>
> I think you miss the more general point.  Taxpayers paid for the development
> of the technology, and then had to pay inflated prices when the technology
> they paid for was turned over to private hands without the consent of the
> funders.   If you were asked to do the same thing, but with a neighbor or
> the local mechanic, you'd be outraged: Yeah, I built what you asked me to
> and paid me to, but then I gave it to Mega-Mart and you gotta pay again.
> Who got hurt?  Surely not the computer business execs as they laughed their
> way to the bank.
>
> paul


right on, comrade
ben