Also, Ian was sanctimonious as shit in those emails between he and Neil. I think he's probably in the right, but that doesn't make it smart or reasonable to act like there's no validity at all to the other person's point of view. "I forgive you for (x)"? Come on, even if the other person is being an asshole that's no way to treat somebody who could be a useful ally.
He was, and I'm glad he was taken to task over that tonight on the show. Both behave like assholes, but most of us have from time to time. The thing to recognize is where they were this afternoon was a
bad place to be, and both need to reflect on what's passed, and back away from the sanctimony.
...and it's worth noting again, that though I and many of you agree that "intellectual property" isn't property, not even all "principled" libertarians agree. The biggest shocker may have been that Neil doesn't. He responded, seemingly, like an objectivist, not a libertarian, but the way to a libertarian world is to
try living like it's a libertarian world, and well, we suck at it.
I believe it's moral, and practical, but we're gonna need to take Zeno to heart, and each of us is going to have to build a better man to fit in the society of better men, or we will fail. This means acting like the guys were smart enough to encourage Ian to act like (and again, I know I suck as bad as anyone.)