royalties & licensing, mapped
Friday, September 29th, 2006A friend just pointed me to two global maps of exports of royalties & licensing fees and imports of same.
random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
The important thing to realize is that free software people aren't any closer to saints than the folks in the proprietary software companies. They're just as given to emotion, greed, and the lust for power. It's just that the free software rules tend to restrain their worst instincts and prevent them from acting upon them.
tagged: anarchism, open source
—Peter Wayner, from Free for All: How Linxus and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans; excerpted at http://www.wayner.org/ books/ffa/ pullquotes.html.