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#8 Re: Life's EULA and the Ownership Society Posted by PJ_at_Belzabar_Software (61.246.xx.xx) on Wed 7 Feb 2007 at 14:01 Well, the thing is that evolution itself is about survival of the fittest. Evolution itself doesn't care about freedom or serfdom - they are just paths for testing what survives. In the long run I reckon all that the fencing of the intellectual commons will do is aid societies that have real freedom to thrive while the fencers end up in a dinosaur-like patent litigation etc quagmire. The corporate-driven USA realizes this and is therefore frogmarching every country it can, kicking and screaming (or sometimes with bribes) to the WTO so it can drag everyone into the same quagmire to bring everyone to the same grinding halt. This will work to generate profits for patent corporations etc for probably a generation or so (or as long as corporations continue to have power over governments). Eventually I suspect that the power of knowledge and being able to hack anything at an individual level will be the origin of whatever emerges to kill off such corporate tyranny. I doubt such freedom will come automatically, but the cool thing is that there are enough obstreperous individuals that come up and lead the way so that the rest are enlightened and can follow the One True Path. I expect RMS is just one of a line of such opinionated, obstreperous (obnoxious even) prophets, and who is blessed with a clarity of vision backed by his uncompromising logic. Yes, I know, the St Ignucius persona is usually understood to be simply ironic, but I'd say it's actually ironically ironic. PJ

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