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Open Source Communism
Talkback ZDNet UK is not claiming that open source equals communism - we will leave that kind of clumsy comparison to Darl McBride and Bill Gates. However there is a delicious irony in the UK's allegedly right-wing Conservative Party allying itself with a...
[March 8, 2007, 15:12]
Monopolies Are Key To Communism
Talkback What reminds you of communism more? A single, all powerful monopoly that dictates prices, squeezes out competition and shrouds their code to produce crap; or A development philosophy that promotes competition amongst suppliers and promotes quality...
[March 8, 2007, 14:51]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Gates is precisely correct: communism operates by the abolition of property rights. It failed (and will always fail) becuase of this. Abolishing IP rights does for the intellectual world what communist Russia did to the physcial world (I will...
[January 10, 2005, 9:09]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback The magic word "communism" always seems to be used whenever an US company wants to hide how greedy they are. And "greedy", as in: total control, leads not to innovation nor to a fair working incentive system but rather to an all to familiair model...
[January 6, 2005, 17:29]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Perhaps Mr Gates should examine the phenomenon called "McCarthyism" before he starts shouting about 'communism' again. Are we suddenly back in the 1950s?
[January 6, 2005, 18:16]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Gates is precisely correct: communism operates by the abolition of property rights. Communism operates by the state control of property rights. Ergo Intellectual Property more closely resembles communism than does shared source.
[January 10, 2005, 14:02]
Wage Determination Under Communism And In Transition: Evidence From Central Europe
White Papers The main purpose of the paper is to explore whether workers shared in firm-specific rents and losses under communism and during the transition. Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, this paper shows...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Open Source != Communism
Talkback Look back in history Socialism and Communism has not been a success, just look at North Korea. This isn't communism, this is just common sense. No need to oppose for the hell of it though You did not provide a commercial/business answer to who is...
[March 10, 2007, 9:50]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback I do not think this communism stuff works anymore even in the USA, today. Not much ammunition left for Mr Gates. Funnily The Soviet Union had lots of IP rights including all the IP rights of the rest of the world.
[January 7, 2005, 8:35]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback The world Mr Gates wants to see has far more in common with communism. Open source is democracy in action, not communism. What he is proposing will ultimately lead to no pressure to compete on quality, value or innovation.
[January 7, 2005, 10:14]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Communism has nothing to do with Bill Gates real goals. Brent. Sigh. It's just another way of him to try to get the discussions towards unrelated topics. Hoping that decisions will be made emotionally.
[January 11, 2005, 2:31]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Confusion between IP rights and copyrights? I think there is a lot of purposeful confusion here. While no one would condone a "copy" of a program such as a program myoffice which apart from a different logo matched "Office" perfectly, that is...
[January 10, 2005, 11:04]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback I think that Gates is unwanted and unneeded in modern computing. And moving back to the monopolies debate. So when people say Firefox is being downloaded onto people's systems, that's true, but IE is also on those systems.
[January 7, 2005, 12:35]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback World is much worse off thanks to MS and IBM For over 20 years the IT world has been trying to overcome the limitations of the blend of IBM PC and Microsoft operating system, both much inferior products at the time ( and still) but brought to the...
[January 7, 2005, 11:15]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback I see he's had to resort to name-calling again. So sad.
[January 7, 2005, 10:55]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Oh, & also name calling, putting words like 'Communism' next to the topic of open source. Hi Brent, what OO version are you using please? Is it the latest testing Build or stable? I've just read a survey that placed Open Office ahead of M$ Office...
[January 10, 2005, 14:32]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Oh bugger off, the world's a better place with windows. I know it'll get better, I know they're working hard to get it right. The sooner the better, but give technology a chance.
[January 7, 2005, 8:36]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback There can be so such 'rights' which are under state control. The conceprt of a "right" peratins to action - specifically, to freedom of action. What doos the idea of "state controlled" rights imply? It means that the state may take away this...
[January 10, 2005, 22:46]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback 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.
[January 6, 2005, 18:26]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback An interesting debate Brent, but I still fundamentally disagree with you. You can have your philosphic argument on what 'rights' are. In my view, whether the state itself owns rights, or allows another entity to control them amounts to the same...
[January 11, 2005, 9:05]
