An un-original and un-historical view of Intellectual Property.

Remember the Copyright powers and laws of the INQUISITION, wielded by the Roman Christian Church in Europe, to suppress the 'open source' bible?
Some damn fool had invented a printing press and booksellers were printing and selling copies of the (sole source, proprietary) HOLY BIBLE that had been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Russian, etc.
It took Napoleon to finally stop the 1000 years of Inquisition, but the Office of the Inquisition remained open until about WW-II.
No doubt Microsoft will be encouraged by this news and the supporting history.

However, things happen about 50 times faster now, in this Microchip-and-software world, than they did between the years of 1010 to 1930. Look for Open Source to energe entirely victorious in this modern world within the next 20 years.

"He who learns not from history is doomed to repeat it" and "History repeats itself because no one listens to it"

William D