Hitch Your Wagon
from the Intellectual-Pooperty dept
This is a metaphor.
Filed Under: competition, culture, protectionism
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Comments on “Hitch Your Wagon”
Well said!
They wont get it
A metaphor the mouth-breathing, head-in-the-sand “sharing is theft” shills will completely miss, of course. Expect lots of arguments about how the poop is like a car, and using it without paying for it is stealing, and therefore the current way must be preserved (or something like that….their circular, blind, strawmen arguments rarely have any logic or rationality behind them).
Re: They wont get it
I’ve never understood the need to analogize the simple concept that is the dissemination of culture. It’s not like a car or any other kind of vehicle. You do not need to simplify it any further. If you know how communication works then it stands to reason that you also know how culture works.
I mean, how did they do it back in the day? “Culture is like a pair of legs! If it were meant to be spread then why are legs so easy to break?”
Re: Re: They wont get it
Well, the problem is that it SHOULD be a simple concept, but IP laws have morphed to the point that even lawyers and judges can’t agree what the hell it means.
Thanks for the laugh.
Maybe it’s because I’ve had three drinks of Carolina Moonshine, but the “This is a metaphor.” comment had me in stitches. 🙂
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Its not just you. That extra sentence made the comic 10x funnier.
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I totally agree. For some reason pointing it out made me laugh out loud.
It?s A Shit Metaphor
That is all.
🙂
I too, got a chuckle multiplier from Nina’s disclaimer.
Though I get the metaphor, My first thought was another..
“Lots of Stars are managed by turds”
muwahahahaha
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And ithe inverse is also true.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
coming up
Next up, applying turd polish to make people think it shines like a star.
Re: coming up
Myth CONFIRMED by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman.