Information Wants to Be Free: Difference between revisions

* Early on in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the mercenaries are attacked repeatedly by the F'sherl Ganni Gatekeepers, due to experimenting with (and holding the patent for) the 'Teraport', a method of [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] that far outstrips the unwieldy [[Portal Network]] that got the F'sherl Ganni their name as well as discovering that {{spoiler|said [[Portal Network]] also works as a series of duplicators allowing the F'sherl Ganni to torture clones of their MILLIONS of users for information then kill them}}. Finally, Admiral Breya Andreyasn figures out that there's a way to stop the attacks: Release the Teraport into Open Source, essentially spreading the technology freely across the galaxy, and removing the Gatekeepers' reason to specifically target TargonTagon's Toughs.

** {{spoiler|This has the unfortunate side effect of {{spoiler|starting a LOT of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|wars]]}}.

** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-06-15 During the HTRN takedown arc], Petey quotes the trope namephrase when letting the battleplate ''PopagaiPopigai'' know that the Fleetmind warship ''Plaited Daisies'' was broadcasting their communications on an open channel so that Tagon was also in the loop.

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'', when [[Named After Somebody Famous|Dean Martin]] [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20071211.html steals Jean Poule's research data] to make a monster of his own, he justifies the theft by saying, "But ''information wants to be free''! I had a public ''duty'' to steal it!"