OT Question

I wanted some opinions

Should we expand the notion of "freeware" to other physical ornon physical things, like ideas, art, invetions etc?

These would be things of public domain that people would wantto give for free to the world.

Wikipedia talks about freeware als only for programs...

but its such a well known term it would be good to use it for other things too.

There is only one problem. In freeware the creator may (if he/she wants to)still have the rights over the program.

an example of an invention released as freeware is the free energy device patent released a few months ago
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1981

Socialism is failing on a global level. While greed is a part of the world, it is not greed that drives capitalism, but necessity: how do you stay in business and continue to produce your product if your product is free?

"John Jay Smith"

I, personally, am for freedom of information and community involvement in producing better software, and ideas of infrastructre/implementations. Most businesses will listen 'somewhat', but by far and large, they tend to do what they want, period. I am of the belief that software could advance, considerably, in the areas of UI, better program files utilization (under the hood, ala Mac), and overall experience. But businesses will always be stubborn.

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