Archives for August 2002

gave a very interesting speech last week, which has (of course) been published on his site: Viridian Note 00325: Open Source Speech. Very interesting, particularly the following passage: “The result is 95% market domination by Microsoft. But that’s not a market economy. That’s not even capitalism. That is a state-capitalist, state-sanctioned monopoly that Mussolini would have smiled on. Mussolini used to give the people of Italy free radios. But they would only tune in to the fascist station. This was supposed to be the only kind of radio that people in Italy understood. This was the entirety of Italian radio as a medium. Mussolini’s radio had just one big dial on the front that said ‘Radio Zone.'”