[LINK] Is it unethical to infringe a patent?

[Deus Ex Machina]

Kim Holburn [kim at holburn.net] 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.

what baloney. companies have the ethics of those driving them.
companies are not sentient beings and make no decision nor engage in an
actions. people do so in the name of the company based on their own ethics.

can the chardonnay socialists please stop refering to this is bit of
nonsensical fantasy. it makes you sound so 19th c.

Vic