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Re: [News] Lawrence Lessig Talks Linux

__/ [ arachnid ] on Wednesday 16 August 2006 02:26 \__

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:38:26 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> An end run round copyright laws?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | What Linux has done for operating systems, the Internet should do
>> | for content, a prominent lawyer and activist urged Tuesday.
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 
>> | Stanford Law School professor Lessig noted that Department of Justice
>> | lawyers attacking Microsoft for its Windows monopoly fixated on IBM's
>> | vanquished rival, OS/2. But Linux showed that decentralized,
>> | nonproprietary operating systems were viable, he said.
>> | 
>> | [...]
>> | 
>> | Linux has demonstrated that it's possible to build operating systems
>> | and software that lets customers bypass Microsoft's control. The
>> | Creative Commons, Lessig hopes, will do the same in letting people
>> | exchange content without reliance on entrenched media powers.
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://news.com.com/An+end+run+round+copyright+laws/2100-1025_3-6105805.html
> 
> What Lessig is advocating is a return to what the Internet once was
> before the greedmongers got hold of it. I wholeheartedly agree with
> him.

True. 

http://www.open4success.org/Olnews/index.html

        ( Commercialisation of the Internet )

Blogs appear to take some control back; others centralise information in
community sites such as Slashdot and Digg. But you still have forces like
Netscape/AOL (Digg copycat) Google, Yahoo (YouTube and Google Video/Yahoo
Videos). Then, you have that goddamn Net neutrality, as well as attempts to
tax VoIP (among other means of sabotaging emerging, disruptive technology).

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