This is the very reason we need unions. With a union aka collective agreement we can protect our own intellectual property from being shanghi'ed by big corporations.
I would like to say that I agree with most of your comments. The Open Source Movement would not be where it is now if it were based just on monetary profit. I feel that we as a society are coming to a crossroads. Do we stay with our current system of capitalism with welfare for the rich or do we create a new capitalist model not based on monetary gain, but based on the enrichment of life itself. We must acknowledge though that the idea of copyright itself is outdated. It is merely the red headed step child of big corporation who wish to hold on to thier fiscal position with out innovation. To put this in prospective: If the current status of IP law, copyright and corporate greed where in place at the begining of the last century there would be only one brand of air plane, one brand of car, no atom bomb no advancement of medical science, no rock and roll as a matter of fact we may have never won WWII. Are current status of law stops all inovation by smothering it with law suits. Just my 2 cents
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This is the very reason we need unions. With a union aka collective agreement we can protect our own intellectual property from being shanghi'ed by big corporations.
I would like to say that I agree with most of your comments. The Open Source Movement would not be where it is now if it were based just on monetary profit. I feel that we as a society are coming to a crossroads. Do we stay with our current system of capitalism with welfare for the rich or do we create a new capitalist model not based on monetary gain, but based on the enrichment of life itself. We must acknowledge though that the idea of copyright itself is outdated. It is merely the red headed step child of big corporation who wish to hold on to thier fiscal position with out innovation. To put this in prospective: If the current status of IP law, copyright and corporate greed where in place at the begining of the last century there would be only one brand of air plane, one brand of car, no atom bomb no advancement of medical science, no rock and roll as a matter of fact we may have never won WWII. Are current status of law stops all inovation by smothering it with law suits. Just my 2 cents