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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]
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 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 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]
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 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]
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]
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 If a requisite of "skills, knowledge nad experience" were required to use a wordprocessor, I think that would pretty well qualify the program as poor in terms of usability. Can you image on the box when someone goes to purchase it.Requirements...
[January 13, 2005, 7:54]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback Ricardo, thanks for your comment. We would not remove a Talkback comment simply because Microsoft asked; only if it contravened our guidelines, for instance by being libellous or by containing expletives.
[January 8, 2005, 9:40]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback In a similar discussion on IP rights on a different site the following article was raised which I think provides some pertinent ideas to this discussion: Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage by Richard M.
[November 21, 2005, 19:55]
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 Observe that he does not once equivocate communism with open source. He equivocates communism with violating rights, and he is correct. Ricardo - I'm using version 1.1.1. Ironically, I just decided to use it to write this (so I could spell check...
[January 10, 2005, 22:06]
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 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 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]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback If Gates wants to continue to discredit Microsoft, saying that opposition to IP is communism is the best thing he can do. Beside the fact that this is nothing more than FUD against Open source, Bill Gates is completely wrong on this topic.
[January 8, 2005, 10:41]
