[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [Fsf-press] Software Freedom Day

[Arun Mehta]

Paula wrote:

>I thought the salt march was to challenge the British monopoly and the
>ban on Indians manufacturing salt themselves? I mean, it was sorta
>anti-proprietary &  microeconomy thing. Rather like challenging the M$
>monopoly - it's not that we're whingily dependent, it's that we've been
>subjected to an unfair monopoly backed, ultimately, by battleship
>diplomacy and a foreign regime of rapacious merchant-politicians. Go
>Gandhi!
>  
>
There was no ban, just a tax, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Satyagraha

I use this when arguing against intellectual property, saying that ideas
are the salt of the information age, and the IP regime puts a tax on them.
Arun



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