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[quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]Partly prestige, partly a . . . how to put this? They're intellectual property atheists? I have a lot of sympathy for this mindset (even as someone who has written software for a living) because I see what IP laws have become in their current incarnations - copyrights extended to what is it now 120 years? 140? Patents used to try and prevent people from writing software and just giving it away for free . . . I'm pretty sure that wholesale theft of intellectual property isn't the answer, but I think I understand where the people perpetuating it are coming from. I'm also pretty sure there ISN'T any answer at all within a capitalist system where corporations are allowed to influence government in any fashion, ever. posted by Ryvar at 5:37 PM PST on April 22 [/quote] This is better than any Wal Mart shopper deserves.[/quote]