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Re: Patents are bribes, Copyrights are protection rackets

____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 20 June 2007 04:28 : \____

> So says Nick Mailer, one the founders and directors of The Positive
> Internet Company.
> 
> .----
> | In the late nineties, a new term was coined to describe Free
> | Software. Open Source emphasised pragmatism and methodologies, as
> | opposed to ethics and principles. It was designed to strip Free
> | Software of its "moralistic" garb, and redress it in a business
> | suit.
> |
> | It might come as a surprise, thefore, that Free Software holds the
> | key to market success; proprietary software and Open Source's
> | fair-weather friends reveal themselves increasingly hostile to the
> | true interests of business.
> |
> | Find out why Free software lead to Free markets.
> `----
> 
> https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/events/161.en.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/3xmp3l (debian.net) [Theora Video]

In short, all these concepts are created by the wealthy to block entry by
others. And they still try to call it "free market" or "capitalism". It's just
fascism. It's a rule of terror.

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