Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 21:19:38 EST

On Sunday February 18, brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest
> > > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law.
>
> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:
> > > As a person with a some decades of experience with patents and
> > > trademarks, and playing among the various sides, I can state
> > > quite unequivocally that the problem is money.
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil
> > at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor).
>
> Many have heard the saying 'money is the root of all evil'.
>
> The quote is in fact 'the pursuit of money is the root of all evil'.
>
> Thanks go to Dan Hollis for reminding me of this.

A better translation is:

   the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
                                      ^^^^^^^^
which is from the New International Version.
Certainly it is easy to point to individual instances of evil that are not money
related.

Follow the URL:
http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=1+tim+6%3A10&NIV_version=yes&NASB_version=yes&KJV_version=yes&NKJV_version=yes&NIV-IBS_version=yes&RSV_version=yes&DARBY_version=yes&YLT_version=yes&WE_version=yes&showfn=yes&language=english

for a comparison of translations.

And seeing that we are way off topic already....
I would have said that the "core" is probably the one place where
these people aren't evil. They just have lots of layers of evil
hiding that core.

NeilBrown

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