Comment Re:I really have to disagree with this article (Score 2, Informative) 202
ON what grounds has this been modded this a -1? It's a legitimate point.
Comment Re:The Inviasible Gun (Score 2, Informative) 554
Russia was meant to be frozen in a perpetual state of intermediate communism while the rest of the world experienced proletariat revolutions. Eventually, the supposed plan was to have all government wither to nothing, leaving self-regulating anarchistic local councils.
James Boyle's New Book Under CC License 80
An anonymous reader writes "James Boyle has released his new book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) under a Creative Commons License. It can be downloaded free or read online. There are chapters on Thomas Jefferson's views of IP, musical borrowing and the birth of soul, free software, and synthetic biology. Lessig is impressed. Doctorow says he is a law prof who writes like a comedian (is this a good thing?), and credits Boyle's first book for getting him involved in online rights."
Comment Re:Actually, that's sort of a cop out. (Score 1) 838
I think the real explanation as to why people do this mental tap-dance can be found hidden within a text known as Inherit the Wind.
