Are you a copyright communist? (I think I might fit the description).
P. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html The war on copyright communists Bill Gates wants software patents to protect his profit, not the public Andrew Brown The Guardian, Tuesday January 11th, 2005 Bill Gates is an intelligent man who has done a great deal of good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of American intellectual property law a "communist" movement he was encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the entire world. He said: "Of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist." The argument in principle that Gates makes against "communism" starts in exactly the right place. But his vested interests lead him to drag it in the wrong direction. It is as if the Sheriff of Nottingham were to announce that it's enormously important that your property was protected from criminals - so he'll take everything you have that might be stolen and lock it up for safety in his castle. <SNIP> -- ============== "We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government, nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom, that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with God, and with one another, that these things may abound." (Edward Burroughs, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice') Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations, 3 Grosvenor Road, Banbury OX16 5HN, England tel./fax (+44/0)1295 261864 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] website - http://www.fraw.org.uk/mobbsey/index.html _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
