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The Great Patent Debate: Gates Clarifies IP and "Communist" Remarks

Bill Gates has been trying to neutralize the shock waves he sent through the open source community when in a press interview he made an analogy between 'communists' and people who advocate a less restrictive IP environment, such Creative Commons licenses and things like that. 'No, no, no. I didn't say those people were 'communists.'' Gates insists.

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#7	Mad78 commented on the 30 Jan 2005 Is every story these days going to be about patents and IP issues, whatever happened to software development?
#6	Infernoz commented on the 20 Jan 2005 These corporations should shut up, they have been allowed to dictate, stagnate and abuse rights legislation for far too long, it is time to reverse the damage of excessive patent/copyright definitions/durations so that people can again freely create, innovate and use products. The ironic thing is that less patents/copyrights for shorter time periods would probably force business to innovate, keep improving products and make for a better society. We only need open source, creative commons, P2P etc. to make up for all freedoms we should never have lost in the first place! IMHO Excessive corporate rights legislation is a corrupting socialist, anti-capitalist policy i.e. fascism!
#5	mrben commented on the 14 Jan 2005 I suppose we should have expected one of the richest people in the planet to assume that people who don't necessarily have money as their only incentive are communists.....
#4	steve commented on the 14 Jan 2005 The Creative Commons is about helping people who choose to put their work in the public domain. Not forcing people to do so, which the elimination of intellectual property would do
#3	For the Record commented on the 14 Jan 2005 If free culture advocates are "modern-day sort of communists" as gates alleged in that interview, then we may as well all go home. here is what he said, exactly: "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."
#2	joe commented on the 14 Jan 2005 Whats the incentive for any computer vendor to support Linux or some other alternative? Well, there isnt any, really, because Bill Gates and Microsoft have created an artificial barrier to the marketplace using anything else other than Windows.
#1	DRM Lurks In the Background commented on the 14 Jan 2005 Bill Gates's view of history is, erm, interesting. Presumably he sees supporters of DRM as the "true capitalists" in contrast to those darned commie creative commons folks. (Yes I know he didn't say that, but isn't that where this is headed..?)

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