Videos: Food for Thought on Freedom of Thought, Corruption, and Corporate Deregulation
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-31 14:54:19 UTC
Modified: 2008-12-31 14:54:19 UTC
FREE SOFTWARE DAILY has just shared the following video, which puts under scrutiny the idea of software patenting.
Eben Moglen addressed the students and staff of Christ University, Bangalore, on the topic of "The Free Software Movement and the Struggle for Freedom of Thought" on 12-12-2008 in the Main auditorium of the Christ University campus.
Here is Larry Lessig speaking about the role of corruption in politics -- an issues he studies more closely than copyrights these days. This has a lot to do with so-called "intellectual property", which is just a monopoly enabler, or a government-granted franchise.
Here is questioning of the behaviour of corporations in general. A lack of regulation can be tied to the collapse of our economy at the moment.
"The key change in this year’s Actuarial Study, due to cascading the new “risk appetite” from the financial study, is a significant increase of the total pension contribution rate of 5.7 percentage points, up to a total of 37.8%. This is driven by an unprecedented decrease in the discount rate of 105 bps down to 2.2%."
Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes
"Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."
Comments
Doug
2008-12-31 16:36:14
Dan
2008-12-31 16:43:25
I can't say I agree with that, in it's design stage, I beleive it was meant only to credit those who deserve credit. Sadly, it has...turned.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-31 17:59:51