{"id":1386,"date":"2005-01-06T15:58:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T20:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/the_new_communists\/"},"modified":"2005-01-06T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T20:58:42","slug":"the_new_communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/the_new_communists\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q &#038; A with <a title=\"Gates taking a seat in your den\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Gates taking a seat in your den\/2008-1041_3-5514121.html\">Bill Gates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Q] In recent years, there&#8217;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, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to look at patents, we&#8217;ve got to look at copyrights.&#8221; What&#8217;s driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?<br \/>\n[Gates]  No, I&#8217;d say that of the world&#8217;s economies, there&#8217;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&#8217;t think that those incentives should exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.  People who don&#8217;t agree that US corporations should have copyright protection for 100+ years (it keeps getting extended) are &#8220;communists.&#8221;  I&#8217;m <i>very<\/i> surprised that the leader of Microsoft doesn&#8217;t have a higher regard for promoting competition.  Shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/the_new_communists\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The New Communists\"><p>Q &#038; A with Bill Gates: [Q] In recent years, there&#8217;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, &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to look at patents, we&#8217;ve got to look at copyrights.&#8221; What&#8217;s driving this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}