Rattle wrote:

I somewhat agree with this but at heart don't. The core of this is, the NAS wants to be as far away from this turkey as possible. To that end, they are saying, you can't use own standards, you can't use our anything. They're telling Kansas to go screw using every means at their disposal. And good for them. I think Kansas has managed to make some very serious errors that will kill science in some schools, and kill everything else in others. but that's a different point. NAS wants to tell Kansas to go to hell? If IP law lets them do it, good for them.

Ok. Let me extend the logic in play here... This is kinda what you are saying:

A black guy kills someone. It's complicated. Rather than go through the effort to prove he killed the person, they just throw him in jail because he is black. Something on the books could be used to do it, and no one was going to stop them. It was easier. People say "Oh well.. He killed someone, he is in jail. Justice was done."

This isn't how justice works. It's how bad law gets in the books, and stays there.

No, I'm saying something completely different. Bob wants to do "thing" and as part of "thing" he wants to include stuff from Fred. Fred gets wind of what Bob is doing, wants no part of it, and even though he has not in the past made an issue of people using his stuff before goes after Bob for doing it.

If you want to make your argument, that would be the Al Capone scenario. We can't get him for all the other crap he did, but we can get him on tax evasion.

In any case, none of those arguments (including the one in the Wired article) are making the argument you try to analogize to here.

RE: Intellectual Property Evolutionists Are Wrong!