Open Development, Creative Work

There were few good things about the Euston Manifesto. But it did at least call for absolute submission to the facts of the historical record. However, it is we who are in a position to give effect to that call, since we have no past or present support for any of Nazism or Fascism, Stalinism or Maoism, neoconservatism or Islamism, the terrorism of the Far Left or the terror inflicted by regimes of the Far Right.

And it did at least call for an end to, and the reversal of, any patenting of genes, algorithms or facts of nature, and any retrospective extension of intellectual property laws in the interests of corporate copyright holders, instead affirming the open development of software and other creative works. Once again, that faction having been massively discredited and largely dissolved, it is now for us openly to develop that creative work.