by By Paul Rosenberg
Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000 at 7:24 PM rad@gte.net
The book reviewed here--published in early 1999--provides a chilling, well-integrated overview of the devastating consequences of treating everything imagineable as intellectual property owned by private entities--almost always giant corporations. Throughout history, free public knowledge has been the lifeblood of human existence--and progress. Would we ever have started using the alphabet if we had to pay every time we used a letter? What if the inventor of zero charged a fee for using it?
Ayn Rand sucks. She is the most pathetic, "explioters-rights" advocate ever. The entire Libertarian party is the same. Capitalism is evil to the core. Anarchy Now!