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*Ultimatly* All information is free.
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You and I have interpreted what Steve said differently, axel. I understand him to mean "at some point in the future, all information will be freely available". That is what I disagree with. Of course I'm not in favour of perpetual copyright, or anything like that!
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Second the coke formular is a trade *secret*
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Yes, I'm well aware of that
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Coca Cola is doing well to keep the recipe secret, that works indefinetly as long as they can manage to keep it secret. If they are found out, they cannot go to any court if someone else starts to produce coke.
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I'm not entirely certain that's true. Anyone know for sure?
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If a drug company invests to create a new medicament to do get a patent on it, and the right to exclusevly sell it for 20 years. After 20 years altough it becomes "general knowledge" and anybody may. Then we get generica being much cheaper. 20 years is enough time to make a reasonable profit of the investion. But we talk about copyright here, and this is patent law. Its really quite a different "construction site" to talk about, and I think this topic is hot already enough without throwing in new things. Lets keep it on topic, shall we?
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Again, I am well aware of the difference between copyright and patents, but at the end of the day, both are forms of "information". Copyright protects a specific "expression" of work, whereas patent protects a process or invention, but both are equally "information".