Re: Swiss govt agency declares Linux/OSS crapware "not a sufficientalternative to Microsoft products"

[Alexander Terekhov]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 
> In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Alan Oh Paragon of Guh-N? Linguistics Mackenzie wrote:
> 
> > [... amusing nonsense ...]
> 
> > Geistiges Eigentum in German is what "intellectual property" in English
> > you silly.
> 
> What an amazing assertion!  Do you have any evidence to back that up?

I've already provided the "evidence" silly.

Try also

http://www.ip.mpg.de/ww/de/pub/aktuelles.cfm
(Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs- und
Steuerrecht)

and click on "English".

You'll get

http://www.ip.mpg.de/ww/en/pub/news.cfm
(Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax
Law)

Geistiges Eigentum <==> Intellectual Property

Got it?

> 
> "Geistig" does not mean "intellectual", except as a subsidiary meaning.
> Its primary meaning is "spiritual" or "religious", or perhaps "mental".
> As I said, "geistig" is cognate with "ghostly".
> 
> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geistiges_Eigentum
> 
> > "Unter Geistigem Eigentum (auch intellektuelles Eigentum, engl.
> > intellectual property) werden absolute Rechte an immateriellen G?tern
> > verstanden.
> 
> Yes.  "Immateriellen Guetern" = "ghostly goods" or "immaterial goods" or
> "goods lacking any substance".  It cannot be "intellectual property".

Intellectual property is a form of intangible property you idiot.

Stocks and bonds are other forms of intangible property.

> 
> > Geistiges Eigentum wird daher auch als Immaterialgueterrecht
> > bezeichnet.  Inhaber eines solchen Rechts ist z. B. der Anmelder eines
> > Patents oder der Schoepfer eines urheberrechtlichen Werks. "
> 
> Seems likely.  But there's no "property" anywhere in all that.  There's
> copyright, which is an abstract right, not anything of any material
> substance.

All the euros on your bank account is your intangible property silly.

No?

Go to doctor Alan.

regards,
alexander.

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