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intellectual property

04 Feb 2022 - 11 Nov 2026
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    • Some day I should tell the story about how Alan Ruttenberg and I battled all the powers of MIT over this.
    • Just to be clear: we were against the idea of IP, at least in our own case, and for academic standards of open information exchange. This wasn't a battle over ownership of some idea, it was the meta-battle about whether ideas should be owned. All we wanted is the right to publish our software as part of the normal course of academic communication.
    • This was similar in feeling, if not in details, to Richard Stallman 's rage at what commercialization and IP did to his world and led to founding of the Free Software Foundation. But our claim was narrower, we weren't claiming that software should not be owned at all, only that software developed through the process of academic research shouldn't be.