Michelle Murrain wrote:
> I guess what
> I am trying to articulate is my own growing unease with the climate around
> intellectual property in the US, and the ways that that might impact on our
> ability to produce, distribute and promote open-source software, and in fact,
> how that might impact the adoption of open-source software by uninformed
> users. I never thought that laws like UCITA, which have very far ranging
> impacts on software and intellectual property would ever fly, but it's flying
> in many states.
Don't worry, I'm uneasy about it too. I think the USA is no longer
a democracy, but a capitalism - or a plutocracy. Government by the
wealthy. And that bothers me, a lot - if only because other countries
(like mine) seem to want to follow the USA, lemming-like, over the edge.
I don't see Open Source as a way to fight it. I just see it as
something I want to do, that I feel is worthwhile in and of itself.
I don't know a way to fight the gradual slide to plutocracy. If I
knew of an effective one, I'd be doing it.
I feel disenfranchised. Taxation without representation, and all
that. Oh, there's *nominal* representation....
Jenn V.
--
"Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/
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