On Saturday my T-shirt turned up. I like it and it will play into the hands of those who have loved to label me a communist over the years!
I actually think the t-shirt looks good and for $5 how can you possibly go wrong. I think the ‘copyleft’ design is cool and I wholeheartedly support the notion of the freedom and sharing of ideas to promote and encourage creativity; rather than the control and greed that seems to be exhibited by people like Bill Gates.
I first heard about this here and I quote:
If you’ve been reading BoingBoing lately, you’ll know what its about, but basically Bill Gates, in an interview with CNet News.com (great Apple quotes in this interview, btw), described people who are against intellectual property and over-strict copyright legislation as communists (Dan Gillmor has some good analysis of this). So, naturally, there are various desktop wallpapers and buttons for us creative commies, and now, t-shirts.
I don’t think calling ourselves “commies” is a good thing for the open source movement, but you gotta admit that it is a good play on the Creative Commons name. I do love the copyleft logo, and now have that as my desktop wallpaper.
You can go and buy a t-shirt if you like mine too!
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