[pp.int.general] "Intellectual property"

[Boris Turovskiy]

On 09.07.2010 13:11, I.K. wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I agree that it is very sad to see so much anger over an issue as 
> simple as that, and I also urge you to restrain.
>
> Now, on the topic. I also find it ridiculous to see so much effort 
> being put into debating the appicability of some term...Because this 
> is just some wording, dammit!
I haven't started it=)

> Look, saying that "intellectual property" is a wrong term because it 
> has nothing to do with "property" is as ridiculous as saying that a 
> "guinea pig" is a wrong term because these creatures have nothing to 
> do with pigs! Well, of course guinea pigs have nothing to do with 
> pigs: that's why we call them GUINEA pigs - to differentiate from 
> pigs. And of course intellectual property has nothing to do with 
> property in conventional understanding of this term: but that why we 
> call it INTELLECTUAL property - to differentiate it from just property!
oink-oink!!

best,
B.