Money is a sign of poverty
(In recognition of World Intellectual Property Day)
If I have a useful idea and I do not share it with you, it is because I believe that it has the capacity to save me, but that we cannot all be saved. Like hundreds of people competing for one lifeboat. It is because I fear that I will not be able to secure enough resource for myself without taking some of it from you.
One of my friends once described Free Software as a very middle-class idea: That only people who have not known scarcity will be interested in a concept like sharing a potentially lucrative asset.
(the title comes from The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks).
August 14th, 2008 at 12:10 am
I think money is a sign of power. If you use it right way, it will help you, but if you use it wrong way, prepare for destruction.