great Buckminster Fuller quote

Posted on by Luis Villa

Hadn’t seen this one before:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Kudos to those who are doing that. (I was going to make a list, but it was longer than I expected- which is great.)

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  4. The same applies to law.
    You don’t get to change it because it’s wrong, you get to change it because it’s obsolete – superceded by something more commercially lucrative.

    As I was saying here:
    http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/ideas_for_patent_reform

    There are three ways of rectifying the software patent problem:
    1) Lobbying – demonstrating the law is unethical, if not invidious and impractical.
    2) Rendering and demonstrating s/w patents as completely ineffectual and/or redundant.
    3) Demonstrating patent restricted s/w has a lower economic return than unrestricted s/w.

    1:- Good luck with the lobbying. ;-)

    2:- Create a standard s/w configuration infrastructure to rapidly adapt the moment s/w is put on notice for infringement. Demonstrate that patents simply create unnecessary work for the free s/w community to treat as damage to be routed around – inevitably avoiding patent licence revenue by providing both a rapidly deployable non-infringing alternative, and a deferment of licensing fees to the end user (should they insist on use of patented code).

    3:- Create a collective funding mechanism to facilitate the commission of free software.

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