LinuxCon: Keeping open source open

LinuxCon: Keeping open source open

Posted Sep 25, 2009 8:33 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Keeping open source open by nix
Parent article: LinuxCon: Keeping open source open

sometimes -- often -- lobbyists like to write laws so that they can get special advantages or privileges from those laws.

You have to go further than that, because a lobbyist can only draft the law. For it to take effect, he has not only to get someone else to sponsor it, but often hundreds of other people to vote for it. So you have to be way more cynical and propose that all the legislators somehow get special benefits -- bribes, I guess -- at the expense of society. And assuming you don't believe you and your friends are so immoral, you have to believe that legislators are cut from a different cloth from the rest of us, and if legislators are elected, that requires even more cynicism because it means the evil bastards somehow fool millions of people, generation after generation, into not recognizing them for the thieves that they are.

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