The Summer That Mr. Gates Retired and Mr. Stallman Didn't

Eben Moglen [2006]:

"This will be remembered in history as the summer that Mr. Gates retired and Mr. Stallman didn't"

Another excellent and inspiring speech by Moglen

.. where he reminds us of the inevitable, unavoidable, endgame:

"Software that can do everything, runs everywhere, needs no additional testing, just works, can do anything human beings want, and costs $0.00 per unit."

It eludes me why people don't seem to grasp this:

"Excluding people from ideas works wells only if you think of ideas as something only one person at a time has.

When you live in our world and you know that ideas are created by people cooperating, sharing, yelling, screaming, waving their arms and typing code at 2 in the morning; the 20 year old monopoly on the ownership of an idea is an abomination."

(but Eben, tell us how you *really* feel :)