> wasn't that a turnabout? i remember that he was roundly criticized a while
> back because he wasn't much of a philanthropist. the argument was that
> cyberlibertarians tends not to be especially generous because their wealth
> was all on paper. there was an entire spread on the topic here, when i
> first moved to FL.
Under what definition of the term does Gates, whose whole business model is founded upon gov't regulation of the economy in the form of software copyrights, and who has asked Congress to take legal action against the concept of open-source licensing since it threatens his monopoly, qualify as a "cyberlibertarian"?
Matt
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