Jan 16 2005
Bill Gates; views on Intellectual Property
In a recent CNET News.com interview with Bill Gates, Michael Kanellos asked the question, “In recent years, there’s been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, ‘We’ve got to look at patents, we’ve got to look at copyrights.’ What’s driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
Bill Gates responded, “No, I’d say that of the world’s economies, there’s more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist.
Look Ma … the world is full of Communists! Damn!
You can read the entire interview on CNET’s website: Gates taking a seat in your den
