[ale] Stallman: Still the True Champion of Intellectual Freedom

[Edward Holcroft]

Excellent piece.


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:55 AM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> A good friend shared a link to an ArsTechnica article on a recent
> conference addressing the destructive and obstructive injuries to
> innovation being perpetrated by the fallacious protectionism and
> greed driven insanity of U.S. software patents.
>
> Green Party advocate and firearms rights activist Richard Stallman
> was there, of course, and spoke truth to power by offering the only
> real and comprehensive solution, not to mention the simplest and
> most principled solution.  Whatever you may feel about his ideas
> and ideals, or his passionate expression of them, it is hard not to
> respect this person as an unassailable and increasingly rare
> example of personal integrity in the world:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-**policy/2012/11/your-**
> criticisms-are-completely-**wrong-stallman-on-software-**patents/<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/your-criticisms-are-completely-wrong-stallman-on-software-patents/>
>
> In reading some of the comments I found one of the best, most
> direct analogies for explaining the detrimental nature of software
> patents that I have yet come across.  Even one of the most notorious
> and unscrupulous corporapists in the industry would seem to agree
> with the the European Union that software patents are a heinous,
> dysfunctional blockade to innovation...
>
> ====
> Last edited by ScifiGeek on Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:41 am
> ---
> Copyright protects you from people [plagiarizing]  your software projects.
> Just like it protects an author from people [plagiarizing] their novels,
> short
> stories, and poems.
>
> But patents on sentence structures, rhyming couplets and other techniques
> of writing would not offer any more real protection to authors, [and would]
> instead make the work of Authors more and more difficult, grinding it to a
> halt.
>
> It has long been recognized by those in the software industry:
> "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of
> today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry
> would be at a complete standstill today". - Bill Gates (1991)
> ====
>
> In keeping with the spirit of the weekend, I'm infinitely thankful to
> the universe that I exist within a slice of space time that is shared
> by Richard Stallman. :-)
>
> in peace
> aaron
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