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Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate!
superapecommando writes "There's a fantastic little story in the Guardian today that says a US lobby group is trying to get the US government to consider open source as the equivalent to piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), an umbrella group for American publishing, software, film, television and music associations, has asked the US Trade Representative (USTR) to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and India for its 'Special 301 watchlist' because they encourage the use of open source software. A Special 301, according to Guardian's Bobbie Johnson is: 'a report that examines the "adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights" around the planet — effectively the list of countries that the US government considers enemies of capitalism. It often gets wheeled out as a form of trading pressure — often around pharmaceuticals and counterfeited goods — to try and force governments to change their behaviors.'"
Aren't you a communist as well?
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I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.
i want the 15 seconds on my life back i spent reading your nonsense.
you have a twisted, fucked up view of the world if you think effort in exchange for payment makes you someones tool. i suspect you'v never worked a day in your life, nor have you ever had anyone working for you.
My work in the medical translations field has brought medicine and understanding of how it works to billions of people around the world. Thousands and thousands of people work from home each day as independent actors in a decentralized team that spans the globe, and they co-ordinate their daily lives with my software. I have improved the quality of your life in such fundamental ways that you will never understand, and you will never know who I am, and I am still a reasonably young man with my greatest work ahead of me.
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