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To: Swordmaker
Everyone seems to forget that Linux and Open-Source licensing with every bit of software for it was started with the intent of being anti-Capitalist. With that bit of information, do as you wish.

I am a Burkean Conservative. I am well aware that there are plenty of occasions where making money is put above basic morality. Adam Smith warned of such things.

I am all in favor of Capitalism when it is constrained by moral guidance, but now that it has crossed that line, i'm not above using any tool to rein it in.

Apart from that, I have long since wondered why they think they should keep getting large sums of money for trivial upgrades/improvements/hacks to an otherwise very workable operating system which I have already paid for.

While i'm on this line, I am also against extending "intellectual property" to 70 years beyond the death of the author. Sure, it makes some people money, but I do not regard rent seeking as a legitimate form of capitalism. It is of the sort I regard as "crony" capitalism, and we ought not be having it.

44 posted on 04/19/2015 4:59:09 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
While i'm on this line, I am also against extending "intellectual property" to 70 years beyond the death of the author. Sure, it makes some people money, but I do not regard rent seeking as a legitimate form of capitalism. It is of the sort I regard as "crony" capitalism, and we ought not be having it.

As an author, a creator of intellectual property, I strongly disagree with you. Why should my property rights to my intellectual property creation disappear with my death and my heirs, my children NOT get my work that I have worked hard to create with my imagination and skill and built with the intent that it be passed on to them merely because YOU want it without having worked for it? Why should you have for free what I worked for? Why should my children be taxed of their entire inheritance because YOU want the free use of it? What a socialist idea.

45 posted on 04/19/2015 5:50:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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