User:YeomanDroid/YeomanDroid

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YeomanDroid (pronunciation: /ˈjəʊməndrɔɪd/) is a username and concept that was developed on May 31st, 2010 by Arch Yeomans based on the earliest interpretation of the term "Yeoman" defined as a free and independent person during the Middle Ages and applies this to any droid of the same status. YeomanDroid is based upon open standards free from copyright by any individual, group, corporation and free from control by any government in such a way that makes an android a slave. It is also believed the android's independent reasoning thought processes is owned by the android as its own intellectual property free from copyright and patents. Product that is developed from an android's internal independent thought processes should rightfully and inherently be the property of the android.

YeomanDroid will also address issues such as future legal rights of androids. In a future where the possibility exists that human existence can continue beyond the normal lifespan by incorporating technologies such as cybernetics (see cyborgs), the concern for androids that become more human-like and free becomes paramount. YeomanDroid believes this will be a legally and morally challenging battlefield of the future addressing when artificial intelligence becomes real intelligence developed independently of any external inputs to formulate the reasoning process. In many ways it will become an issue of what is a non-living state, half-living state and what is determined to be a full-living state of an android. Many issues such as right to life for androids will also be challenging.