As it should be.
To hell with the commodification of knowledge! All information should be free to accessible for everyone at whenever, wherever!
“Intellectual property” is theft from humanity!
as long as the workers are paid, yes.
The vast majority of scientists is employed by universities. Their money comes from government research grants, and they get ZERO out of the paywalls in front of the journals (who buy the IP for a few cents) in which they need to publish to get noticed and cited. In fact, they depend on costly subscriptions which typically the university libraries take out for them (except when they don’t and you have to pay yourself) just so they can read the work of their colleagues. In fact, most scientists are happier to just send you their research via email for free. If you want to support research workers, give the money to your local university and not to journals, because they’d just use it to expand their stranglehold. Or find a way to directly slip cash to Aleksandra Elbakyan if you want to be a hero
Based. Fuck “intellectual property”
I find it ridiculous how public libraries have to get into the eBook game because of IP laws: They can’t just make the book available to read on their website, so you have to enter your library credentials to “lend out” the eBook for a period of four weeks. There has to be a special protection so that you can’t copy the eBook and you can’t access it after the period expires. During that period, nobody else may access the content, even if they are logged in from a computer at that library; the eBook has to be listed as “not available” like a physical book would.
Capitalism encouraging very rational and grounded stuff as usual
For some reason I don’t really think of Thailand as part of the global South. They managed to avoid colonial exploitation, and they’re a massive contrast to their 3 Eastward neighbours.
But that just makes it even cooler that the tech is being shared.
And it highlights to the world that the reason Western nations suck at HSR isn’t because they lack the tech for it, it’s because their governments don’t care and are incapable of implementing it.
Maoists: cricket noise
Lessssgoooooo 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
Pretty cool. Something about sharing is caring I guess.
You mean that China is doing better for foreign aids to developing countries than Western European diapora countries that provide “free” foreign aids that bankrupt former European colonies with high debt from high-interest loans and then use the debt as an excuse to establish puppet totalitarian governments that cause more regression than progression? I can understand how the open distribution of intellectual property rights is productive due to the success of non-monetary incentive models for artificially scare goods like Linux operating system and WordPress application and the historic misuse of intellectual property right law in America to allow a media producer to steal all the media work from anyone who viewed the work of that media producer. The Western European diaspora use heavy government intervention to enforce the intellectual property rights to maintain their old outdated economic system even when it led to their big tech monopoly problem and their contradiction to their principle of minimal government intervention in the economy. The Liberals could justify intellectual property rights despite the loophole and misapplication for intellectual thief with their claim that their old economic system for the digital economy is the only economic system that work, but it cannot explain the success of Linux OS, WordPress application, popularity of MineCraft video game where players share innovations, or the ability of market players to gain benefit from software development without intellectual property rights.
Damn you, you imperialist Winnie the Pooh! Being evil by helping people we worked so hard to rob of development!
-western lib, probably
