Sure it's a parody of RMS, but I think it's more subtle than that. This is what Bill Gates (WHG) would sound like if he spoke like RMS. Software used to be a loss leader for hardware, WHG made it into an economic 'good', hence 'Good Software (tm)'.
O.P.S. (off-topic P.S.): Overheard the other day: "What!? Is information just going to be a loss leader for marketing now!" Translation(?): "I can't demand that you live a lie!?"
I've been reading all sorts of things trying to make up my mind about the nature of intellectual property. One site about IP and computing is BitLaw; it has a lot articles, links, etc. offering different arguements pro and con.
One article that is similar is here. It may have been the same, I need to re-read.
Another article I'm reading is "Patents and Copyrights" by Ayn Rand, originally published in The Objectivist Newsletter (May 1964). She wrote some of the same points I've read from RMS. If you can, then find a copy of the original in the library; there have been problems with the accuracy of some reprints of her work, though not necessarily with this one.
Of course, everyone here knows where GNU is; I'm reading their arguments too.
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Sure it's a parody of RMS, but I think it's more subtle than that. This is what Bill Gates (WHG) would sound like if he spoke like RMS. Software used to be a loss leader for hardware, WHG made it into an economic 'good', hence 'Good Software (tm)'.
O.P.S. (off-topic P.S.): Overheard the other day: "What!? Is information just going to be a loss leader for marketing now!" Translation(?): "I can't demand that you live a lie!?"
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I've been reading all sorts of things trying to make up my mind about the nature of intellectual property. One site about IP and computing is BitLaw; it has a lot articles, links, etc. offering different arguements pro and con.
One article that is similar is here. It may have been the same, I need to re-read.
Another article I'm reading is "Patents and Copyrights" by Ayn Rand, originally published in The Objectivist Newsletter (May 1964). She wrote some of the same points I've read from RMS. If you can, then find a copy of the original in the library; there have been problems with the accuracy of some reprints of her work, though not necessarily with this one.
Of course, everyone here knows where GNU is; I'm reading their arguments too.
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