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Nick Moffitt Interview
Swedish hacker-wannabee writes "Nick Moffitt is in an interesting interview at Gnuheter. Moffitt: 'I want to see a future where when I buy something, I own it. I don't want corporations and governments telling me how I may or may not use my own private property in my own home or among my friends. I want the ability to take apart my toaster or my alarm clock and see how they work, or combine them into something new. I don't think this future is possible without some serious effort on the part of hackers.'"
CLIT still 0wns you fruits!
i hate all these trolls posting as ACs. This site has gone down the crapper.
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They claim they don't, but they do, wonder why their are so many trolls, crapflooders and lamers on slashdot, because they are fighting for their rights! Slashdot is trying to silence the trolls. Remove the filters, the trolls get bored, and slashdot will be troll free!
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So you want to buy things and own them with disregard to gov't regulations.
Maybe you don't realize how open that argument is to abuse. So just because you can afford a car you should be able to drive it off road, over your neighbours lawn and cat. Maybe if you can buy a gun you should be appoint yourself sheriff and re-create the wild west in your front lawn.
Or maybe your bitching is just about copyrighted music. So what? fair use includes making backups. You just can't share albums you've bought for sale or to people who haven't bought them. But then again you probably don't have a legitimate music collection, just a HD of britney spears and n-sync that somehow is your god-given-right to pirate.
Some of us (but not the majority of bitchy lamers) actually create a marketable product for a living (code, graphics) why should some prick d/l what I spend my time on? Did i give permission to share it out to the rest of the world? The whole intellectual property argument isn't about the metallica's or britney spears of the world (they're actually faily few and far between belive it or not). A totally pirate frendly environment really kills innovation (why invent/create if you won't get paid for it?) Well, some people do things for free (mostly lamers and 14 yr old european kids coding a crappy rip-off OS.
That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin.
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unfortunately, your argument has absolutely no merit, because you are not being silenced because of the color of your skin, you are being silenced because you are a moron. there are no constitutions on this planet which protect against discrimination because you are a moron. race, gender, religion, etc, are protected, being a moron is not.
go complain somewhere else. go troll somewhere. just do yourself a favor and put a 0.0.0.0 entry in your
try hiking, or reading a book. maybe go back to college and pick up an advanced degree.
*tard.
-ac
I don't see why a similar thing can't be done in general. A company makes something, and gets the full use and privacy of its item for a certain number of years. During this time it makes money and is happy. Then, after the time limit is up, everyone can then do what they want with it, take it apart, improve it, sell their idea, etc.
True, big businesses would never go for this, because it would make much less powerful and much less money. But it sounds like a good idea, right?