Re: Call for volunteers to discuss IETF patent policy with Richard Stallman

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:08:16 -0500
Richard M Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:

> I cannot post anything in a group whose name uses the term
> "intellectual property" without saying first that I think it is a
> mistake to make any statement using that term.  It encourages
> overgeneralization, and is too broad to be of use in meaningful
> statements.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html for more
> explanation.
> 
> The issue here concerns patents and only patents.  To use the term
> "intellectual property" in discussing it would confuse the issue by
> bringing in other disparate laws.

Without debating your point about the terminology, the IPR working
group was concerned with copyright as well. 


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb