tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post9123090047738696861..comments2024-03-22T12:20:48.920+00:00Comments on open...: Open Source: It's all LinkedInGlyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-48084576756010237112010-07-07T14:21:29.526+00:002010-07-07T14:21:29.526+00:00There's nothing special or amazing about '...There's nothing special or amazing about 'open source'.<br /><br />It's simply what happens when a government doesn't create special anti-technology-sharing privileges such as copyright and doesn't do something so amazingly progress-impeding as to grant patents.<br /><br />What mystifies me is why so many critics still entertain the possibility that there might just be some peculiar situation in which it would be helpful to mankind's progress to prevent the diffusion of knowledge or the utilisation of technology.<br /><br />And that's 'helpful to mankind', not just to manufacturers' or governments' wealth and power.<br /><br />Monopolies can certainly be lucrative to those that have them, but that lucre has to come from somewhere - it is skimmed from the derogated liberty and lost opportunity of everyone else on the planet, i.e. stolen from 7 billion people.Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-81902132326413991382010-07-07T12:38:49.202+00:002010-07-07T12:38:49.202+00:00@drkoepsell: luckily I saw it thanks to Mike Masni...@drkoepsell: luckily I saw it thanks to Mike Masnick's fine Fisking:<br /><br />http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100706/03220710079.shtmlGlyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-50048013349703378542010-07-07T12:33:12.737+00:002010-07-07T12:33:12.737+00:00have you seen the latest stupidity from Gene Quinn...have you seen the latest stupidity from Gene Quinn?<br />http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2010/07/05/open-source-stalls-innovation/id=11506/Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018243335902307150noreply@blogger.com