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The Dangerous Trend Of Thinking That Ideas Can Be Owned, Sold Or Stolen
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| An anonymous reader called our attention to a comment reposting some
| fantastic thinking on the dangerous trend of believing we can own, sell or
| steal ideas.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090107/0023103308.shtml
Dean Baker's book would reform IP
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| It is heartening to find more and more critics of our intellectual property
| regime, partly as a result of growing knowledge but more importantly, the
| growing critical reaction to the extreme excesses of the application of the
| law. A new voice for me is that of Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for
| Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. whose book, THE CONSERVATIVE
| NANNY STATE; How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer,
| is available for download on line link here under a Creative Commons license.
| The book is about much more than IP, as the subtitle indicates, but this
| review focuses on the IP issues Baker covers. He calls the chapter, "Bill
| Gates Welfare Mom: How Government Patent and Copyright Monopolies Enrich the
| Rich and Distort the Economy".
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| He begins by examining the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and
| Microsoft, noting that it was not Gates hard work or brilliance, or the
| superiority of his software, but his government provided monopoly based on IP
| law that made him today's Croesus.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000343
Recent:
Four More Offbeat Open Source Ideas
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| If you prefer your media devices hackable (as ThinkGeek puts it), check out
| the $179.99 Neuros OSD media recorder and player. It runs Linux, and all of
| its firmware is open source. You connect the OSD to your TV and give it an
| analog video input and it can encode video in various formats, including
| formats for the PSP or mobile phones. You can find out more at the Neuros
| site.
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http://ostatic.com/176105-blog/four-more-offbeat-open-source-ideas
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