Linked by David Adams on Mon 16th Aug 2004 17:44 UTC
I read something in one of the comments for an OSNews posting a couple weeks ago that sent me thinking. It wasn't an original or profound thought. In fact, it's a rather commonly-held opinion that happens to be quite misguided. It's an opinion summed up by the "open source = communist" meme that gets thrown around in thousands of flamewars all over the internet. In this essay, I will explore why this idea is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
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I am an information anarchist because I can't find a philosophical basis for intellectual property claims
Do you agree that the government should have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing (for limited times) to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries? If you disagree that government should have that power, fine; but recognize that you are diasgreeing with Article 1, Section 8 of the US constitution -- not to mention the British Common Law from which it was derived. I think that most people -- and probably even most people in the open source movement -- are not interested in a constitutional amendment to repeal intellectual property rights. My point is that you (and others like you) do the open source movement terrible harm by associating your extremist views with it...