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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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Destruction of culture was ancillary to "owning the physical act of publishing".  |
And if this argument was presented consistently . . . .
We should be reading about how Gutenberg stole the concept of movable type from the Chinese, cast the type in metal rather than ceramic and then mechanized the press.
All in an attempt to "own" the printing process then being done by scribes.
If that had happened 500 years more recently, the scribes' union (and notimp) would have been yelling: "anti-trust".
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