[Freeciv] monopoly power of game developers

["Brandon Van Every" <vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So the world owes you cross-platform compatibility?
>
> Yes.

Do you develop software for a living?  Do you run your own business to
do it?  Pay for your own machines and your own training?

> > This is a justification for ripping off a developer's intellectual
property?
>
> There is no such thing as "intellectual property".

So if you write a screenplay it's ok if I just take your screenplay,
make a movie out of it, don't pay you, and get rich?

> So called "intellectual property" is only propaganda from fscking
monopolists.

I see my other post on Capitalism vs. Marxism wasn't off-topic after
all.  I won't repeat it here.  But: prove to me that Microprose was ever
a monopolist.


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