Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Copying, content and communism (07 Jan 2005) Bill Gates thinks I'm a communist. Not the old-fashioned state socialist concerned with five-year plans for boot production in the eastern provinces, but a "new modern-day sort of communist", the sort who "want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and movie-makers and software makers". Admittedly, Mr Gates probably does not know who I am and I doubt if he spends a lot of time reading the BBC news site. But he clearly thinks that those of us who are concerned about the restrictions on creativity placed in our way by the extension of intellectual property law, and those who oppose software patents, pose a serious danger to the US economy and Microsoft's profitability. Article URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4155085.stm Read 218 more articles from BBC News sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Media: VNU on uK eBusiness for 2004     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy