As long as I’m ranting about My Little Pony and this notion of open source, there’s something else I want to get off my chest. It’s Larry Lessig of Stanford Law School. This douchebag is always going around telling everyone should give away their stuff for free and talking smack about Apple for using DRM. Check out this article just for one example of him bitching about Apple’s operating system not being free. Dude, tell you what. You go write a friggin operating system as good as OS X, and you give it away free and let anyone frig with it however they want. Okay? You do that, and then we’ll talk. Right. Let me know how that works out. I’ll sit here holding my breath.

Riddle me this: Is it not ironic that a “radical” like Larry Lessig, who devotes himself to telling other people to give away their work for free, is himself employed (and handsomely paid) by the ultimate example of an organization that profits by roping off intellectual property and forcing people to pay exorbitant fees to get access to it? Try walking into one of the libraries at Stanford to borrow a book. See what happens.

If Larry really believed what he said (ie if he wasn’t just a guy who wants an excuse to steal other people’s work and dress this thievery up as some noble cause) he would be railing against his own employer. Why doesn’t Stanford “open source” all of its courses and make them available at no cost over the Internet, and let people earn degrees without paying tuition? Wouldn’t that make the world a better place, if we had all these highly educated people running around? Isn’t it “immoral” and “unethical” for Stanford to be hoarding its intellectual property instead of sharing it with the “community”?

Larry, I’ll open source OS X when you open source your university. Or resign in protest. And start giving away your books and course lectures. Until then, eat me. Seriously. You friggin hypocrite. You pompous phony. Eat my ass.