[x]Blackmoor Vituperative

Friday, 2005-04-08

Jonathan Schwartz on IP

Filed under: Intellectual Property — bblackmoor @ 11:12

Now here’s someone who gets it. ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn skewers the nonsense being spouted by Sun’s president Jonathan Schwartz, and calls it what it is: a self-serving attempt to profit indefinitely from work done in the past, and to profit from the work of others in the future. If people like Schwartz had their way, we’d all be pushing ploughs and tithing to the local warlord.