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| Authored by: cpeterson on Tuesday, September 25 2012 @ 08:34 PM EDT |
Software patents are slavery. No other description fits. Physical slavery does
not shackle the mind; making a person's thought processes subject to rent
collection by another person is the most vile slavery ever conceived by man.
BUT - now we get the opportunity to, at our own expense, do quality control on
the chains our own minds are to be bound with? Someone is actually able to
propose this with a straight face?
I can't even think of a historical analogy that comes close. Maybe the Roman
practice of having the condemned carry their own cross - but even that was only
after due (well, usually) process. But that wasn't - how to put it? I wanted to
say "it wasn't a life-long endeavor", but that would be... inaccurate,
I guess. To require people to volunteer in their own degradation is just beyond
fathoming.
I guess soon Stockholm syndrome will be a basic requirement for anyone wishing
to get a job in software development.
But it's not *just* PR. This is a historical point along civilization's journey
to utter moral bankruptcy. Hope everyone enjoys the view.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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