Patents for profit: dystopian visions of the new economy Becky Hogge - openDemocracy

Patents for profit: dystopian visions of the new economy Becky Hogge - openDemocracy
"The knowledge economy increasingly touches every area of life – work and pleasure, professional and personal life – in every part of the world. It is vital that decisions over its future are made in a fair, accountable and democratic way. As agencies of governance recognise the value of knowledge as any kind of commons, muscular lobbyists for a strong-IP regime, keen to commodify knowledge for the new economy, will be drawn into the fray. These agencies must arm themselves with well-researched models of how knowledge performs in a commons environment. Software is a crucial part of this new landscape."

I hope the society and the public funded scientists (that should do research for the benefit of the society) understand this early enough, because the business have already prepared for this knowledge economy for years. You don´t belive it? Here is what the "nerd" Bill Gates said as early as in 1991 (now he is one of the main speaker in World Economic Forum every year):

“The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose... Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”

When the society have entered the path of the knowledge economy, theres no way back, then every denies of knowledge is acceptance of slavery, more or less..