[KwasiOwusu]

The British BS Corporation does it again.
Fresh from broadcasting the vile Jerry Springer obscenity laced, Christ mocking filthfest, they turn their attention to what they are best at again, spewing out anti-American, anti US business propaganda.
This one goes straight to the garbage bin, to join all the other normal rubbish from the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

The drama between Open Source/Linux/Apache and proprietary licensed software like Microsoft very much parallels the more tangible battle of Marxism vs. Capitalism; government ownership of everything vs. private property rights.

The Mozilla.org logo very much is reminiscent of Communist China.

The cry "information just wants to be free" is at core an attack on intellectual property (private property) rights....

[weegee]

Copyright law of 100 years ago was closer to original intent of our Constitution (which includes concepts of fair use and works lapsing into the public domain).

It was also freer (no royalties to record a song on record, no royalties to play a song on radio...). Cases went to the Supreme Court and these freedoms held. Eventually entertainers got the special legislation that they wanted.

[HAL9000]

As 10-to-20 million Americans dump Windows and switch to other platforms over the next couple of years, Microsoft will shift their marketing focus to China and other "emerging" and "developing" countries.

More than ever, Microsoft needs Commies, and Commies need Microsoft.

[Bon mots]

[Golden Eagle]

What a bunch of losers. Look at this article from the UK:

"Bill Gates may find it's better to be red than dead".

http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39183282,00.htm

[Protagoras]

If these bottom feeders ever got their way, nothing of importance would ever be created again.

He is a commie, btw.

[B Knotts]

http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_29feature.html

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Richard Kimball]

and those who oppose software patents, pose a serious danger to the US economy and Microsoft's profitability.

There's a reason Bill thinks he's a communist. It's the same reason I think Mr. Ed was supposed to be a horse.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Odd that someone that likes capitalism so much is a flaming liberal like his Dad.

[MarkL]

Digital rights enforcement is already with us...

Not long ago, I tried playing a legally made DVD movie backup I have on XP and media player, and it refused to play it, saying it was an unauthorized copy.

I backup my DVDs rather than take the originals on the road with me.

Mark

[ezo4]

After working at MS for years and moving over to LAMP I am one happy guy and my pocket book is better and I show people what is happening and they pretty much have there jaws on the floor and there eyes buldging out of there sockets.

Nice payback is a b!tch MS

Happy Happy Joy Joy

[Casloy]

Those of us who remember the browser wars, when Microsoft used its market dominance to undermine Netscape, know just what he means.

While certainly no expert in this field, I think the free market sorts this out. I switched from Netscape to IE simply because I go tired of the constant plugins I had to install in Netscape, and found IE a much better app. I don't recall anyone forcing me to choose IE over Netscape. Also, I got fed up with Windows XP and all its problems and switched to MAC. Seems to me if Microsoft dies some day it will be because of poor quality, not lawsuits.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

This is a very interesting and important issue. Thank-you for posting this article.

I believe the boundaries of private property and public property need to be clearly defined.