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At 1:10 PM, gumout said...

Let's all sit down, prop up our feet and have a drink
of Moglen's patented world government Kool-Aid:

http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html

Freeing the Mind :
Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture
Eben Moglen June 29, 2003

"... I said there, and I think it represents a simple truth,
that the government market is one in which there should be
free and open and unrestricted competition. Our position is
that every government employee, everywhere on earth, should
have a desktop fully compatible with all the data now in
existence, with which everything can be done that that
government official needs to do, that the price of
acquisition to that government should be zero, and that
government should be free to make as many copies of that
software as it has public employees and to distribute that
software in any way it wants. Those are the terms on which
we propose to supply software to government, and we assume
that anybody intending to compete in that market will offer
terms at least as favorable to the public and to the public
fisc, as our terms."


Methinks the "death of proprietary culture" may be a' long time
a' comin'.

 

At 5:16 AM, dedmike said...

Let's all sit down, prop up our feet and have a drink
of Moglen's patented world government Kool-Aid:Shows how much YOU know.

In Moglen's world, there are no patents allowed.

Trademarks and copyrights are another matter entirely.

BTW, how's the weather in Jesusland this winter?...and when will Jesus bring the porkchops?

 

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