From: John Beckett 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news::
> "The generous and noncynical view is that there has been a fundamental
> change in philosophy about the degree to which antitrust should be used to
> regulate business activity,"

Perhaps Bush is thinking that the US might need a few giant corporations
left, particularly in the IP area.

Re the view that IP will save the first world from becoming the new third
world, there is a very entertaining rant against DRM at:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6189011.html?tag=nl.e550
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/07/129210&threshold=-1

I'm a bit bored with DRM talk, but Jeremy Allison's article is sensational
and should be read by any Trekkies just for the humour.

I learnt on Slashdot that Jeremy Allison is a hero:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allison

John

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