Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--18be00-So the intelligent way to talk/en

So the intelligent way to talk about them is never to generalize about them but to talk about a specific one, you know, talk about copyrights, or talk about patents, or talk about trademarks, but never lump them all together as intellectual property because that's a recipe for simplistic conclusions. It's almost impossible to think intelligently about &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; and so I refuse to do that. I just tell people why the term is a mistake, and then if you ask me for my opinion on copyrights or my opinion on patents, it will take me an hour to tell you it. But they are two different opinions, and my opinion about trademarks is something completely different as well.