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October
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Misery and Intellectual
Property Rights
Trashing Free Software
By TONI SOLO
"In a world without fences who needs
gates?" The question on the T-shirt flags the developing
struggle between Microsoft, led by Bill Gates, and its rapidly
growing open source software rivals. The arguments around patents,
copyright and software mark another decisive failure for hypocritical
advocates of "free trade". Perhaps only on agricultural
policy are neo-liberal arguments more obvious as shameless propaganda
for monopoly capitalism.
The term open source software--the opposite
of proprietary software--applies to computer applications made
freely available under a public license agreement so anyone can
adapt and improve them. The most common complaints about Microsoft's
proprietary software programs are their relatively high cost
and that, when they break down, only Microsoft can fix them.
Increasingly, large organizations of all kinds are opting for
open source solutions to their computer needs because open source
products are generally cheaper, more reliable and easier to fix
when they go wrong. The personal computer market is not far behind.
Some of the biggest buyers are national
or local government bodies. In May this year the city authority
of Munich decided to convert its 14,000 computers to an open
source operating system (the most well-known, called Linux).
Microsoft worked hard to try and swing the deal their way, but
still got turned down. In Brazil, the government is planning
to use open source software in up to 80% of its computers. In
Spain and Australia, municipal authorities have ruled that purchasing
policies must prioritize open source programs. In September this
year the governments of Japan, China and South Korea agreed to
start a joint open-source software project for a wide range of
applications.
The relentless whine of the "free
" market
Not surprisingly with billions of dollars
of business at stake, resistance to regional, national and local
government moves in favour of open source software is fierce.
In classical neo-lib style, Microsoft and its trade supporters
have argued for deregulated markets. Neo-lib propagandists churn
out declarations like, "Decisions about software purchase
should be left to the market, allowing all producers--open source
and proprietary--to compete for customers. Products should be
evaluated based on the value they provide to the end users."1
What the neolibs are unable to admit
is that cities like Munich and countries like China and Brazil
are preparing statutes after the fact. They weighed their options
and decided clearly against Microsoft. The sums are simple. As
the head of Brazil's Information Technology Institute, Sergio
Amadeu puts it, "If we do this right, over 17 million people
will have access to computers. If every one of them had to pay
100 reales for their desktop software then we'll be sending 1700
million reales (US$600 million) to pay for licenses. Without
free software it's impossible to have a significant policy of
digital inclusiveness."2
But regulation is also necessary to prevent
huge businesses like Microsoft distorting the market by subsidising
products in the short term in order to clean up long term once
their less wealthy open source competitors are forced out. In
fact, leading free software proponents view legislation with
ambivalence. For example Richard Stallman, founder and president
of the Free Software Foundation, "These laws are not the
kind of help we most ask for from governments...What we ask is
that they not interfere with us with things like the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, with software patents, with prohibitions
on reverse engineering that enable companies like Microsoft to
make proprietary data formats and prohibit our work. Those are
the main obstacles to satisfying the software needs of humanity."3
Not only government bodies looking to
get the best deal are choosing open source software. Early this
year, the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) switched to Linux
under pressure from customers. A Reuters systems manager said
"The call for RMDS for Linux has been astounding... They
saw performance improvements and cost savings. These folks are
bankers, and they know you almost never get more for less --
but this time they did."4 Wall Street monsters like Merrill
Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston and the Goldman
Sachs Group have all moved to open source software.
Free big deal?
So what is the great attraction of open
source software? Its low cost is one. But perhaps not the most
important. Reliability is another. The open source Apache program
for internet web servers leads the market precisely because it
combines low price with high reliability.
Security is also a major concern. The
persistent problems with computer viruses that beset Windows
for many people are just a foretaste of future problems. As one
information technology analyst put it recently, "Everyone
in the industry knows the world's chronic dependence on Microsoft
products is one day going to cause catastrophe, yet many people
who know about security are likely to be reluctant to speak out."5
Security is closely tied to independence.
Says Phil Hughes publisher of Linux Journal, "Commercial
proprietary software companies have attempted to undermine Linux
acceptance by questioning the legality and practicality of the
General Public License. But once there has been an open discussion
of the terms and conditions there has been little questioning
of the license. In addition, the advantage of open source code,
of knowing that one is not dependent on the software vendor for
support has tended to outweigh any doubts about the validity
of the licensing procedure."6 Backing up that analysis,
big computer companies like Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems
and IBM have moved to open source software. They too want low
cost combined with reliability, security and independence.
But Phil Hughes' optimism about legal
issues may be premature. Microsoft and its trade supporters are
more than ready to defend their market share. As long ago as
November 1998, Microsoft anxiety at the market success of open
source software became apparent when internal documents, the
so-called Halloween Documents, were made public. Now Microsoft
and other trade allies are supporting lobby organizations like
Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), a project of the Computing
Technology Industry Association. Microsoft say, "Microsoft
is a founding member and maintains a strong commitment to the
ISC. This commitment is based on Microsoft's support of the initiative's
belief that it is important to allow multiple software development,
business and licensing models to compete on their merits and
without government regulations that would seek to prefer one
model over another."7
Sound familiar? It should. It's the same
argument the US and the EU deploy on agriculture on behalf of
their multinationals against developing countries. In that particular
"free trade" conflict, a massively subsidised, genetically
modified, machinery and chemical-warfare wielding colossus enters
the arena against a tiny malnourished day labourer armed, if
they are lucky, with a mattock.
Intellectual property and the public
good
In the case of software, with the two
sides a little more even, the unconvincing complaints of unfair
trade from giant, convicted anti-trust offender Microsoft and
its allies, are supplemented by efforts to create market fear
and uncertainty. But after losing the historic anti-trust judgement
back in April 2000, Microsoft is more careful about how it deals
with competitors. As open source advocate Bruce Perens puts it
"I expect that Microsoft will try and find other proxies
to do their dirty work for them."8
In March this year a proprietary software
company called SCO brought a billion dollar law suit against
IBM citing breach of confidentiality for disclosing alleged trade
secrets to the public. SCO and IBM had collaborated on software
development in the past. But when IBM switched much of its program
development to take advantage of open source software, its work
with SCO was largely superseded. Essentially a financial dispute
between two very big companies, the law suit has little to do
directly with open source software businesses but has caused
insecurity among potential customers.
The underlying issue is that of intellectual
property rights – patents and copyright--and how they
affect trade and economic development. Phil Hughes again, "It's
very easy to make a jump from the open, free, cooperative, non-hierarchical
base of Linux commercial success to questions about the need
for or even the fundamental viability of intellectual property
rights as currently practised and understood. This affects the
general public good in a huge variety of ways. For example, the
public health implications of patenting generic medicines, or
closed source electoral software susceptible to tampering or
other corruption, or food security in impoverished developing
countries--perhaps even the very possibility of sustainable technological
development in the developing world. The basic issues seem to
be ones of access to information and capacity to innovate."
When the United States and the rest of
Europe were struggling to catch up and overtake Great Britain
as industrial powers back in the nineteenth century, they depended
on copying technology. In those days it was impossible to enforce
patent and copyright. Now the major economic powers, through
their inherent financial might and the World Trade Organization,
their global all-in-one sheriff, judge and jury, can intimidate
weaker developing countries so as to keep them in their neo-colonial
place.
For "free trade" advocates,
there's the rub. Anything that is patented or copyrighted can
never be freely traded. Neoliberal propagandists go very quiet
when their clarion calls for deregulation come bang up against
multinational patent rights. Richard Stallman observes, "There
is a partial similarity between free software and globalization,
but also a major difference. The advocates of "free"
trade, and neoliberalism in general, argue that it creates wealth.
That is true--but it also concentrates wealth. The result is
that only the rich benefit. The poor gain little; they may even
lose, as has happened in the US. Free software is different,
because it works against the concentration of wealth. (Copyright
is a major factor for concentration.) So when free software creates
more wealth, the benefits are general."9
The human factor – freedom
and creativity
Free software enthusiasts really seem
to be arguing for a return to the practice of the 1950s and 1960s
when software was freely shared so as to promote rapid development
of computer applications. They say it is essential to be able
to freely run programs, study how they work, adapt them, make
copies to help other people and release improvements to the public,
so everyone benefits. Access to program source code, the kernel
of any computer application, is a precondition for these freedoms--something
that is anathema to proprietary software companies like Microsoft
whose fortunes are based on keeping people dependent on paying
for their software.
Another baffling factor for the neo-liberals
is why anyone would want to contribute their work for free. That
bafflement is understandable. Creative solidarity led tens of
thousands of software programmers around the world to cooperate
and create the Linux operating system because the achievement
and the benefits it brought to so many other people were worthwhile
in their own right. That phenomenon is incomprehensible to anyone
looking for dollars on the bottom line. Free software has little
to do with a free lunch or a free ride and everything to do with
liberty and creativity, freedom of thought, speech and expression.
The neo-liberal ideologues currently dominating international
economic policy will never understand that.
The U.N. World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) in December this year is probably the highest
profile event so far to address these issues. It is the first
of two world summits on communications and information technology
scheduled to take place in Geneva. It is likely to be another
forum for dispute between the US and the EU.10 Despite the fact
that large US government departments, like the Department of
Defense, have opted for open source software, the US government
position is officially neutral. A Commerce Department spokesman
is quoted as saying "Our view on open source is that the
U.S. and foreign governments need to be technology neutral in
its procurement and R&D investments."11
Meanwhile in Europe, on September 24th,
the European Parliament approved amendments to a European Commission
directive on information technology intellectual property rights
which effectively insists that in Europe software should not
be subject to patents. This vote could affect over 20,000 software
patents accepted by the European patent office. Whether the democratic
will of people in Europe expressed through their parliament survives
industry lobbying of government ministers in the Council of Europe
remains to be seen.
Patented poverty--recipe for under-development
A year ago the independent UK funded
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights reported on the impact
of intellectual property rights on developing countries. Chaired
by Professor John Barton of Stanford University, the report confirmed
that poor countries suffer badly as a result of patents and copyrights
affecting health, agriculture, education and information technology.
True to the style of these commissions, Professor Barton heavily
understated the case, "The temptation to impose very strict
protection because of the ease with which software and other
digital media can be copied may diminish the very real benefits
they could bring to developing countries, particularly in accessing
educational and scientific documents at low cost."12
This kind of pronouncement by comfortable
career academics (who would never be asked to chair such commissions
were their conclusions likely to be contoversial) belies reality.
The neo-liberal bureaucrats driving international development
policy have a destructive and impoverished vision derived from
centuries of colonialism and patriarchy. Human creativity and
natural diversity have little place in their reduced, profit
obsessed world. For them it is all the same whether they promote
patents for basmati rice or for some obscure software patch.
Voices from oppressed sectors of the
developing world speak more directly than Professor Barton. As
Indian writer Vandana Shiva says, "Basmati, neem, pepper,
bitter gourd, turmeric . . . every aspect of the innovation embodied
in our indigenous food and medicinal systems is now being pirated
and patented. The knowledge of the poor is being converted into
the property of global corporations, creating a situation where
the poor will have to pay for the seeds and medicines they have
evolved and have used to meet their needs for nutrition and health
care."13 Wholesale enforcement of intellectual property
rights brings misery and untimely death to many millions of people
the world over.
The conservative US poet Robert Frost
once wrote "Good fences make good neighbours". In the
case of software, as in everything else, global multinationals
have trampled at will over every neighbour in sight, from Brazil
to Korea. Now those countries are struggling to set things right
as best they can. One thing they are able to do is adopt free
software like Linux. But the powerful proprietary software lobby
is determined to stop them. We can be better neighbours by defending
open source software and adopting Linux ourselves. Remember that
T-shirt.
Toni Solo is an activist based in Central
America. Contact tonisolo52@yahoo.com.
1. 'New Protectionism: Mandates for Open
Source Software', Citizens for a Sound Economy August 27, 2003
2. "El otro pinguino--Avance del
software libre en la administracion argentina" Andrea Ferrari,
Pagina 12, September 29th 2003 www.rebelion.org
3. 'Governments push open-source software',
August 29, 2001, by Paul Festa, CNET
4. "Banks Want to Swim With Penguin",
Wired News, February 3rd 2003
5. John Naughton, Observer (UK Sunday
newspaper). Sunday October 5th.
6. Interviewed for this article
7. "The politics of open-source
software", by Declan McCullagh, July 14 2003, CNET
8. 'Open source confronts IP issues--Building
on grass-roots heritage, open source facing commercial IP practices'
by Robert McMillan, Ed Scannell. InfoWorld August 15, 2003
9. Quoted in (In "Is Free Software
Inevitable?" Linas Vepstas , February-July 2001
10. The activist group Geneva-03 is asking
all interested people to get involved with their initiative around
the WSIS event. www.geneva03.org
11. 'Open source' software trend faces
barriers', by William New, National Journal's Technology Daily,
August 25, 2003, www.govexec.com
12. 'Intellectual property rights "harm
poor" ', by Alex Kirby, 12 September 2002, BBC Online
13. 'GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY--Economic
globalization has become a war against nature and the poor.'
by Vandana Shiva, from the review Resurgence issue 202
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