Recent Features
| |||||||||||||
Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)Posted Aug 25, 2012 23:01 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)In reply to: Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register) by drag Parent article: Has cash corrupted open source? (The Register)
I wasn't actually referring to Citizen United, I was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood. It's an old concept that goes back to at least the 19th century.
Personally I think the Citizens United ruling was a good thing, because the campaign finance system was hopelessly broken. It was another case of good intentions, but bad results in the real world. Anyone with enough money could easily abuse the system; only the small grassroots guys might run afoul of it. So kind of like the patent system-- great in theory, terrible in practice.
(Log in to post comments)
|
|||||||||||||