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Re: Will Wheaton is wrong on one point
Tim's "bastardness" has nothing to do with it: checkout Art. I, Sect. 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution: The Congress shall have power to . . . promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries Improving the public domain after affording a limited exclusivity is a power granted by the people of the United States to the Federal government. It is not required that it be implemented. Exclusive limited ownership is not inherent in creating something. That is a tradeoff against keeping something a secret in order to have exclusive use.
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