Creative Commies
[...] I’d say that 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.
Everyone’s writing about cnet’s Bill Gates interview with responses by the usual (commie) suspects all over the blogosphere. Of course i can’t resist chiming in.
Up until now i thought that Bill is a kinda-ok-guy, that he just came out of the 80s on the wrong end of the open source/commons spectrum with a few billions and a nice monopoly under the belt and now has to bend over for shareholders. But this statement - just stupid beyond comprehensibility.
Another gem from the interview:
We need to keep IE the best.
People keep saying that Steve Jobs emits a reality distortion field. Reading this interview i got the impression Bill Gates lives in one.
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