In every single year of the last decade,
the global turnover in intellectual property has outweighed
the total industrial production of the world. These markets
being global, the monopolists of intellectual products fight
unfair competition globally. A pirate in Skopje is in direct
rivalry with Bill Gates, depriving Microsoft of present and
future revenue, challenging its monopolistic status as well as
jeopardizing its competition-deterring image.
The Open Source Movement weakens the classic model of property
rights by presenting an alternative, viable, vibrant, model
which does not involve over-pricing and anti-competitive
predatory practices. The current model of property rights
encourages monopolistic behavior, non-collaborative,
exclusionary innovation (as opposed, for instance, to Linux),
and litigiousness. The Open Source movement exposes the myths
underlying current property rights philosophy and is thus
subversive.
But the inane expansion of intellectual property rights may
merely be a final spasm, threatened by the ubiquity of the
Internet as they are.
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