[Upd-discuss] The Reds are back--> "Free Software advocates = communists", says Bill Gates

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

originally sent from the Spanish collective of
press-clippings and blogs CiberPunk.net News, 
http://www.ciberpunk.net/

... the golden copyleft in a red flag is funny...

ZMMM
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Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/05/bill_gates_free_cult.html
By Xeni Jardin
Boing Boing  	
Wednesday, January 5, 2005

I imagine my blog-mate Cory might have a few
things to say about this when he's online again.
:-) In an interview on news.com, Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates described free culture
advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists."
Well now.

    Q: "In recent years, there's been a lot of
people clamoring to reform and restrict
intellectual-property rights. It started out with
just a few people, but now there are a bunch of
advocates saying, 'We've got to look at patents,
we've got to look at copyrights.' What's driving
this, and do you think intellectual-property laws
need to be reformed?

    A: "No, I'd say that 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.

    And this debate will always be there. I'd be
the first to say that the patent system can
always be tuned--including the U.S. patent
system. There are some goals to cap some reform
elements. But the idea that the United States has
led in creating companies, creating jobs, because
we've had the best intellectual-property
system--there's no doubt about that in my mind,
and when people say they want to be the most
competitive economy, they've got to have the
incentive system. Intellectual property is the
incentive system for the products of the future."

Link (Thanks, Rick Prelinger, and Nathan
Slaughter).

BB reader Matt Bradley said, "Obviously, what we
need is a large red flag with a gold copyleft in
the upper left, replacing the hammer and sickle."

That sounded like a fine idea, so I whipped up
the icon you see here. Enjoy, comrades!

Update: More Creative Commies propaganda here.
Link one, Link two.

posted by Xeni Jardin at 08:30:32 PM permalink |
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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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