Editorial: Take Time to Give Credit Where Credit is Due ...
Kung Fu Drafter
It’s not real often that I take a moment to speak in the first person, but some topics require a slightly more serious approach. So please bear with me for a moment as I editorialize all over this post. If it makes you feel any better, I think you will find that my editorial kung fu isn’t too bad.
For the past few months the internet has been abuzz over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). However, it was the week before Christmas that the fervor reached a frenzied pitch and several organized movements to protest against this legislation made news. It was during this time that a list of over 400 corporations who “supported” SOPA made the rounds. Among names like Microsoft, Kate Spade, and Rite Aid was Autodesk, Inc. appeared on this listing.
However on the evening of December 25th, 2011 Autodesk, through its Twitter account (@autodesk) posted the following:
It seems like everyone on the internet is fast to cry foul when we feel we are mistreated or even cheated. I know I have been guilty of this from time to time. But when these corporations reevaluate their positions and make amends … too often, we aren’t so quick to be vocal about that. Well I want to correct that.
I would like to thank Autodesk for reevaluating its position concerning SOPA and changing its position concerning this legislation, in its current incarnation. I realize that the need for corporate and individual owners of intellectual property (IP) to protect themselves is critical and persists. Still, I see this as yet another example of why Autodesk is a corporation I have always been pleased, even proud, to be associated with both in my career and here on Kung Fu Drafter.
- DCM -
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