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On 24 Apr 2006 13:21:42 -0700, wrote:

Music, poetry, computer programs, and using certain substances to
prevent bacterial infection. All were doing quite well, even before
the became elgible for synthetic property status via legal monopolies.
To assume that they could only exist under this status is to ignorantly
ignore the fact that they existed without it.

That's absurd, and is tantamount to saying that writing would have
been impossible before the invention of the typewriter.

--
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer