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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Posted by: Micheal H (Thursday 6 January 2005, 7:26 PM)
I agree with Arthur B.
Mr Gates should read up on poliical economy before stepping out of his 'tech business boundaries' to come up with ridiculous statements such as this. Perhaps he is talking of neo-marxist and humanist views, not Communist. But then again, he did get schooling in USA during the time when every thing that went against the status quo was communist.
Intellectual property rights, and TRIPs (the WTO's chime in), are a way to keep rich countries and companies rich and prevent competitors from forming. Imagine if people knew how to improve our products once they got their hands on our source code, imagine if consumers started to purchase these beter products, we will loose so much money, we cant innovate anymore, therefore IP needs to be protected. Sorry Mr Gates, you are a prodigal Computer scientist, put your concentrations there as you once used to, and do us all some good by making great technology.
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Story: Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
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The magic word "communism" always seems to be used... Arthur B. -
Are we suddenly back in the 1950s? Perhaps Mr... Chris Rankin -
I agree with Arthur B.
Mr Gates should read... Micheal H -
Gates is precisely correct: communism operat... Brent Roberts
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Confusion between IP rights and copyrigh... Steve B -
Brent Roberts is wrong.
"Gates is precis... Kevin Peacock
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There can be so such 'rights' which... Brent Roberts -
Brent. Sigh. Communism has not... Arthur B.
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If a requisite of "skills, kno... Brent Roberts
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Brent. I would like to recomme... Arthur B.
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An interesting debate Brent, b... Kevin Peacock
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Lets stick with the mousetrap... Brent Roberts
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A good reply Arthur.
Brent, I... Kevin Peacock
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Hi Brent, what OO version are you using... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo – I'm using version 1.1.1.... Brent Roberts
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Oh bugger off, the world's a better place with win... samuel
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Samuel,
Replying to you in the same vein as y... Andy
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Not much ammunition left for Mr Gates.
I... Anonymous
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The world Mr Gates wants to see has far more in co... Kevin Peacock
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I see he's had to resort to name-calling again.
So... Steve J
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World is much worse off thanks to MS and IBM... Steve B
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I think that Gates is unwanted and unnee... NJ
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Kevin. Well said. Very well said.
B... Arthur B.
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"Its eyes ever set on the competition, Microsoft w... Ricardo Mardisich
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"the world... ricardo mardisich
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Ricardo, thanks for your comment. We wou... Matt Loney
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Beside the fact that this is nothing more than FUD... BURNAND Patrick
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I find Bill Gates comments on mesh networking inte... Andy Coney
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In a similar discussion on IP rights on a dif... Mark Jones
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