“[on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws] To make the digital world join in the samba…”

— Gilberto Gil

[Dibbell, Julian, 2004, November, We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin, Wired, 12, 11, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html, 2008-03-16]

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