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i hope i'm not the only one who had to look this up. kevin On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Creighton Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steren wrote: >> I was introduced to the US Free Culture movement earlier this summer. >> As far as I can see, I totally share your views but when it comes to >> decisions and actions, I must reckon I'm lost. >> I think there is a lack of constructive initiative. Obviously, this >> could change easily starting by this mailing list. There are topics >> and people have to stick to them. >> >> Steren >> Creative Commons Intern >> Lyon, France. >> > > > Well, I've been a mostly lurking member of this list since it's > foundation, or very nearly it's foundation. (no, I'm not a founder) I > can honestly say that during the early few years, this list was very > active and very well self directed. In many ways, as a group we have > seem to have lost our way. I don't think that this is due to any one > person, myself. I think, perhaps, the movers that have been on this > list have either dedicated more of their efforts to many other worthy > causes; or simply burnt out, graduated and moved on. The problem with > restricting the flow of information, based on the opinions of the > readers instead of the posters, is that this list would then become the > same kind of structured system that this list exists to combat. I'm not > sure which would be worse for this cause, a regulated forum of ideas, or > a bazaar of ideas with a very high noise to signal ratio. Posts > requesting that members self regulate are one thing, advocating > regulations upon the freedom of speech of the membership something else > altogether. Certainly, the noise can be annoying and counterproductive, > but I don't think anyone who truly believes in Free Culture, the > Creative Commons, and the worthy collection of works that share the > FSF's licenses could function for long within a forum that limited what > *they* considered to be relevant enough to post. Most would either go > independent, or fork a list more to their own liking. Either way, the > end result would be the division of forces and breakdown of goodwill > between two like minded camps. > > Kinda like a church split, gives everyone a bad taste. > > Creighton > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- )_)_)_)_)_)_ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
