Guest Column: Intellectual property rights and the software developers who no longer own them

In Star Wars, everyone hated Darth Vader. Sure, we later found out he was a cute kid and a proud father, but in the first movie he was despised. There were lots of reasons, but chief among them was that he was trained by the Jedis and used their invested human capital to become their enemy. That violates a sense of fairness in all of us.