Feb 16 2011: Government should stay out of our personal matters, completely. Enforce contracts, private property, provide for the common defense, period.
Feb 16 2011: Software should be free, in the sense that the government should not force monopolies on ideas (which is the only reason software is not more freely distributed already). I wrote a blog titled "Intellectual Property Is Bad For Business, and in it I argue that copies of software are no scarce, and therefore should not be protected from "theft". Read it here: http://collaborable.com/blog/intellectual-property-is-bad-for-business
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