In related thoughts: I think the folks we should learn from are the pro-choice and gun lobbies. They're not pro-abortion, they're abortion rights advocates; they're not pro-gun, they are defending the right to keep and bear arms.
Good idea, unfortunately we would then be pro-copyright.
Until recently (relatively speaking), slavery was right - does that mean that it's wrong to say that slavery is wrong?
Are you saying that academia has somehow kept the researchers enslaved? If not why are you bringing up slavery at all, it would have served the same purpose to say that society can change.
The point of research is to develop technology for the good of society, right? So what's wrong with combining that with capatalism?
The point of capitalism is to develop technology for the good of the bottom line, any benefit to society is an added bonus.
Ultamitely, people will buy what people want; and the corporations will make what the people want.
True but then again it will be the corporations who tell the people what they want.
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In related thoughts: I think the folks we should learn from are the pro-choice and gun lobbies. They're not pro-abortion, they're abortion rights advocates; they're not pro-gun, they are defending the right to keep and bear arms.
Good idea, unfortunately we would then be pro-copyright.
I don't know how that cleared the patent office in the first place They used the 1-Click Patenting tecnology.
Until recently (relatively speaking), slavery was right - does that mean that it's wrong to say that slavery is wrong?
Are you saying that academia has somehow kept the researchers enslaved? If not why are you bringing up slavery at all, it would have served the same purpose to say that society can change.
The point of research is to develop technology for the good of society, right? So what's wrong with combining that with capatalism?
The point of capitalism is to develop technology for the good of the bottom line, any benefit to society is an added bonus.
Ultamitely, people will buy what people want; and the corporations will make what the people want.
True but then again it will be the corporations who tell the people what they want.
but personal vanity, contemporary politics, greed, stupidity, personal vanity and incompetence all pop up in these shocking episodes.
bad memory?