Rickard Falkvinge Quotes

born 1972 Sweden

Rickard Falkvinge (born 21 January 1972) is the founder and current leader of the Pirate Party of Sweden. He has worked at Microsoft as a project leader, besides managing a smaller software company before resigning to focus on the Pirate Party.

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Also known as: Rick Falkvinge

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If you can provide a mechanism where anybody can try any commercial idea without risking becoming homeless and indebted, more people will innovate and take risks.

More Thoughts on the Coming Swarm Economy (2013)

Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.

Linux and Wikipedia (as well as other, less known achievements) show unambiguously that the idea of requiring any kind of payment for great tools, culture, or knowledge to come into being is an utter falsehood.

Bitcoin is getting there. But it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rickard Falkvinge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.