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Re:Chomsky on Intellectual Property by Symmetry on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:44PM (#2333812)
I have no idea what he's talking about here. The British did do a number of horrible things in India and did use force to crush, for example, the Indian shipbuilding industry. They also could have learned a lot from Indian metallurgy if they were a bit less arrogant. But textiles? I guess they did "steal" cotton, but that wasn't really an invention in the sense he's talking about.
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Re:Chomsky on Intellectual Property by Estragon on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @07:30PM (#2334429)
They certainly crushed the Indian textiles industry economically, which speaks to his broader point that the dominant players only talk about free markets etc. when it suits them.
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Re:Chomsky on Intellectual Property by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @05:01PM (#2333899)
They "stole" the Paisley pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)

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