Gates Elaborates on IP Communists

justin_w_hall writes "In part four of his interview with Gizmodo, big Bill Gates discusses his recent 'communist' labeling of supporters of free culture - and gets into detail about his rationale concerning Microsoft's position on DRM. Other parts of the interview: part 1, part 2, part 3."

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Ok...

[KontinMonet]

Gates originally said (amongst other things):
"... 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."

In the part 4 above, he says:
"All I was saying is that the number of people who are at this extreme who believe there should be no incentive systems for creative work--there's actually less of those people."

By 'belief in incentive systems', he actually means (or perhaps even sincerely believes) that there exists no incentive for writing software for public/GPL/Copyleft (or whatever) usage. With his 'logic', you have to be paid (and, in some cases, well paid) to want to write software. Perhaps he's a closet Creationist too?