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."

Comments

Re:Wanting to get paid for work you did

[TheRealFixer]

Actually, there already *were* limits, very much like you mentioned, in place. Unfortunatly, Congress under pressure from big media companies, have continued to extend the expiration time of copyrights, so essentially there are no more copyright limitations. Add in to that, that corporations don't die and are treated like people, and you've got infinate copyrights, in direct opposition to the original intent of copyright law.

Re:So what is he?

[EnderWiggnz]

There is no reason that democracy and capitalism go together.

It has been demonstrated, in many different countries, that Capitalism and Totalitarianism/Fascism/Monarchies can go hand in hand.

Why then, is communism limited to only totalitarian regimes?

If the majority in a democracy vote for a communst-style economic plan, why is this less feasible than creating laws to respect capitalistic rights?

To go further: The USSR was not a communistic economy, it was a centrally-planned economy, under a totalitarian government.

The US, during WW2, was a centrally planned economy, under a democratic government.

I see no coupling of economic and political systems.