[oclug] Linux kernel development loses BitKeeper

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:15:15PM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 07/04/05 17:10, Jon Earle wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Ross Jordan wrote:
> > > Where do I sign up for this "right to make money". Sounds like a good
> > > deal.
> >
> > It's a great deal!  All you have to do is make something, claim ownership
> > (through any of the legal channels available to you) and sell it to
> > whomever wants it for the price they're willing to pay.
> >
> > Worked for 1000's of years.  Welcome to the human race.
> 
> I think you establish exclusive control over the distribution of a scarce 
> resource, then demand whatever you want in exchange for access to that 
> resource.
> 
> The trick usually lies in maintaining artificial scarcity in the face of 
> natural abundance.  That's where the likes of the RIAA come in.
> 
> The "natural market forces" only work where there is a natural market.  
> Everything else is a shakedown by a bully.  We've never really moved out of 
> the schoolyard.

Yup.

True capitalism doesn't rely on governments to enforce.  Since patents
and copyright are being relied upon to uphold that model, that would be
basically corporate socialism.

> smw

	slainte mhath, RGB
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