Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
> Keith,
> You make the best case for Communism that I've seen since they are the only
> ones who have come up with a way of paying intellects for their work.
Now this sounds like M$ CEO Steve Ballmer ("Linux is Communism"). Keep in
mind that the Linux community includes right-wing libertarians and NRA
gun-toters like Eric S. Raymond, and a whole bunch of venture/dot-com
capitalists.
Keith Hudson wrote:
> Here, for example, is a sentence from a recent book (or, rather, it's about
> to be published in April -- "Free Trade Today", Princeton University Press)
> by Prof Jagdish Bhagwati, of Columbia University and a Special Advisor to
> the UN, one of the world's leading experts on trade:
>
> "To many economiss, the demands for intellectual property protection are
> not cnducive to advancing economic welfare worldwide, contrary to the
> self-serving propaganda of our [American] industries and our [American]
> campaign-contributions-purchased politicians. But they do amount to an
> income transfer from the other, intellectual-property-using countries to us."
Indeed, the proponents of the software change in the German parliament from
M$ to Linux argue along these lines too -- that using the monopolists' (M$)
software prevents competition and destroys jobs in Germany.
See http://www.bundestux.de/english.html
Chris
