The Guardian: The War on Copyright Communists | Linux Today

The Guardian: The War on Copyright Communists

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2005

[ Thanks to Mike Richardson for
this link. ]

“Bill Gates is an intelligent man who has done a great deal of
good in the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie
this should matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the
opponents of American intellectual property law a ‘communist’
movement he was encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the
entire world.

“He said: ‘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…'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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