Gates holds forth on Red Menace of IP law reform

[bemildred]

"No, 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. They don't think that those incentives should exist."

Register UK

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Yeah radical modern-day sort of communists, or MDSOCs

who feel that peer-review of code is a good thing.

Radical.
Communisim.

What a dick.

On edit, for those of you who don't know.... Gates started M$ with what would be called software piracy now, taking a free and open source program and selling it to IBM.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Unbelievable. They're trying THAT old line again?

Bill, meet Eric S. Raymond. Or rather, don't. He may shoot you. He loves the 2nd Amendment and the Iraq war.

[alfredo]

3. He tried charm back in 1983

Here he is posing for Teen Beat magazine. Flinging floppies was a real turn on back then.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Oh, myGod... that is headed for Photoshop forthwith..

thank you!

[alfredo]

5. Pretty scary

isn't it?