Though I cannot agree with the author on everything. Guess that makes me a communist... ![]()
This article is a great counterpoint to the everything-must-be-open ideologies of people like Cory Doctorow.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/17/apple-intellectual-property-technology-ipad.html
As a producer or content I agree with this guy about IP. Its not up to tech ideologues and armchair philosophers to tell us how to run our businesses. I like Doctorow and Boing Boing. If he wants to float his content for free on the net and it works then good for him. But that strategy does not work for all content in all industries and pretending it does is a glib oversimplification of the matter. What works for a highly connected internet celebrity with a devout following of open source rue believers may not work for Hulu or ABC.
As a capitalist I believe the market will tell us what people want, not open source ideologues. And so far the market is speaking pretty clearly with the iPad.

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