[LINK] Is it unethical to infringe a patent?

[Geoff Ramadan]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> On 2006 Aug 17, at 12:06 PM, Brendan Scott wrote:
> 
>> Just an open question really.  Assuming that patents are a form  of 
>> property:
>>
>> (a) would it be unethical to infringe a patent?  (eg: exercise a 
>> patent without the permission of the patent holder)
> 
> Unethical?  Very tricky.  Depends on your ethics doesn't it?  If you 
> have the ethics of a modern company then no, nothing much is unethical 
> because companies aren't people and have no ethics.

Surely companies are run by people, decisions are made by people (on behalf of a 
company) therefore the ethics of the company relate directly to the ethics of 
the people running the company.

However, this doesn't stop People hiding behind the facade of a company.

Reg
Geoffrey Ramadan