The war on copyright communists
Bill Gates wants software patents to protect his profit, not the public
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html
Andrew Brown
Tuesday January 11, 2005
The Guardian
Bill Gates is an intelligent man who has done a great deal of good in
the world. So when he gets caught out in a bare-faced lie this should
matter to all of us; and last week, when he called the opponents of
American intellectual property law a "communist" movement he was
encouraging a mistake that could impoverish the entire world.
He said: "Of the world's economies, there's more that believe in
intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in
the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of
communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and
moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think
that those incentives should exist."
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