Bill Gates vs. the Communists!
The uber-geek that everyone loves to hate gave everyone a new reason to either laugh or loathe him when he announced in a CNET interview that those who didn’t support DRM were communists. Well Gizmodo decided to confront Gates during a brief interview.
Gates: No, I’ve said it exactly. We have your interests totally in mind, but that includes having… if there’s content that can only be there if it’s rights protected, we want to be able to have that content available to you. And so all we’re doing… in no sense are we hurting you, because if they’re willing to make the content available openly, believe me, that’s always the most wonderful thing. It’s the simplest.
If anything Gates is portrayed as a rather sympathetic character but the most amusing is the comments from Lessig’s Anti-DRM crowd...
It seems to me from the structure of his reaction and his delivery that he is regurgitating something which his pr experts cursorally briefed him on before appearing.
In short: i don’t believe a word of his in that interview.
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