On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 06:57, paultz wrote: > How's Uncle Bill going to make a buck with all this anti-capitalism > going on??? ;-) > > > "In a recent speech delivered to the Government Leaders' Conference in > Seattle, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates likened the concept of open > source to anti-capitalism." alright > > http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104-949527.html?type=pt
"Policymakers should not make rigid intellectual property licensing choices a precondition for eligibility for procurement, nor should they discriminate between developers that choose to license their intellectual property on commercial terms, and developers that choose not to charge licensing fees," states one of the "neutral principles" advocated by the initiative. Fine, they'll just happily take all and any right of fair use from me as a precondition of use of anything. They'll dance the DCMA around public discussion until every visit to the dentist or doctor requires a Patient Release Form for anything you say. Just to horrify you even further, here's a Kiwi PC World columnist's take on <a href=http://www.idg.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/(Briefs_Long)/E822038130531612CC256BC6007584E1?opendocument>Our Dear Monopolistic Friend's Spiel</a>. Myself, I think he's right. If the farmers - worldwide - are so well educated that they could debug Linux kernel code, or OpenOffice.org's huge assortment of files, etc, then we have succeeded. Or, to put it into perspective, if the Peruvian farmers His Billness is obviously so worried about. were that well educated and that well equipped, they would have no need to grow cocoa for the cocaine/crack traffic, would they?! Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
