The Alphaville Herald

Flyin’ the Free Culture Flag

by Alphaville Herald on 08/01/05 at 5:34 pm

After Bill Gates described Free Culture advocates as modern day commies, Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin whipped up a flag for the movement. Nice!

Meanwhile, Lawrence Lessig (Mr. Free Culture) waves the flag and blasts Gates: “It’s one thing to read this sort of thing from a studio exec, or head of a record label — surrounded as they are by the sort that surround them. But the people I’ve met at Microsoft are miles beyond this sort of silliness. Does Mr. Gates not even talk to them?”