Earlier today I cited an example of PUBPAT’s connections to the Asia Hardware Manufacturers.  Lets talk more about PUBPAT's self proclaimed “great gift” to the Hardware Manufacturers in the Pacific Rim.  Better Yet, let’s have PUBAT’s Eben Moglen tell us directly via YouTube.

YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorfgQlEJv8

Here are more miscellaneous quotes from Eben Moglen. Remember, Eben is with PUBPAT and is the lawyer and a primary strategist for what is considered to be a “Free Software & Free Hardware Coalition.”

'...Software can prevent software from being owned. Software itself can lift the software tax. That's where we are now are at this moment. On that cusp. In this neighborhood, at this moment, the richest and most deeply funded monopoly in the history of the world is beginning to fail; within another few months the causes of it  failure will be apparent to everybody, as they are now largely apparent to the knowledgeable observers in the industry who now expect trouble for Microsoft… 

One of the greatest problems of human inequality is the extraordinary difficulty of prizing wealth from the rich and giving it to the poor without employing violence…we do not have to do that anymore…, the reason is that we have shifted to a zero marginal cost world as steel is replaced by software, more and more of the value in society becomes non rivalous and it can be held by many without costing anybody more than if it is held by a few…

Now we live in a different world for the first time.   All of the basic knowledge, all of the required physics, all of the deep mathematics, everything of beauty, in music, in the visual arts, all of  literature, all of the visual arts of the 21st century can be give to everybody, everywhere at essentially no additional costs beyond the cost it required to create the first copy…

We find ourselves now in a very different place…, it’s a place where the primary infrastructure is produced by sharing, the primary technology of production is un-owned…we have shown how our software plus commodity hardware, plus the electromagnetic spectrum that nobody owns…, these structures  produce for the common benefit more effectively than it can produce for private exclusive proprietary benefits.  We are solving epical problems….’