Maybe he's loosing his marbles... After all, there's a big difference between free lunch and free speech which he seems (in the comment supposedly from him) to have mixed up.
On 24 October 2010 14:11, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/24/2010 01:19 PM, Rob Myers wrote: >> On 10/24/2010 12:59 PM, Ruth Catlow wrote: >>> What kind of damage Rob? >> >> Ideological. ;-) > > "While such a critique is of course welcome and necessary, I was rather > shocked in Venice when I listened to such a lecture, to discover that > Geert Lovink’s considers the free culture movement as an enemy, because > it advocates everything to be free. Geert presented the following > expressions of free as ‘the enemy’: the freeconomic ideas of Chris > Anderson (who in fact, also does not advocate everything to be free, but > rather explains its economic rationale in a era of very cheap digital > reproducibility), the Oxcars free culture festival (which pays it > artists!), and the Barcelona charter on digital rights. This equation is > of course entirely untrue, and I was surprised that someone of Geert’s > stature, could make the classic mistake between free speech and free > beer, which has been clarified ages ago." > > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-the-difference-between-free-speech-and-free-beer-free-culture-as-people-want-to-be-free/2010/05/25 > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
