Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software
Movement
Author: Benjamin Mako Hill
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:39:49 -0400
Copyright:Creative Commons ShareAlike License
Hi Mako,
This is a great article. It reminds me
here is my argument in a nutshell:
a.) you are using the rhetoric of freedom for the sake of persuasion. I
find this rhetoric to be incredibly hollow and needless.
b.) you think the CC is not free enough, and therefore detrimental to
your cause, becuase it doesn't emit the same attitude or, as
Please CC me on replies as I am not on this list.
quote who=august date=Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:42:03 +0200 (CEST)
Say what? Free to be free to freely think about freedom? Huh?
I didn't say this and I am fully aware of the overloaded nature of the word
freedom. I *am* arguing for a set of defined
Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2005 um 21:42:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb august:
Freedom needs standards? Even freedom isn't free anymore?
That for sure is the quasi-Goedelian paradox of freedom, it can't
describe itself with its own means. If you don't pin down or define
[i.e. limit] freedom, than the term
The CC licenses, however, try to provide some protections for the
producers of content by providing non-commercial clauses.
Which is a bogus advantage. We had this discussion in Nettime before,
and the common sense was that the concept of commerce implied in those
clauses is neither
Say what? Free to be free to freely think about freedom? Huh?
Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software
Movement
Freedom needs standards? Even freedom isn't free anymore?
Why is it that FLOSS advocates are still instistant about what is freedom?
Why
is that
Mako Hill (Debian, Ubuntu and other projects) posted today rather
lenghty and - in my view - well reasoned article about some CC weaknesses.
Read all of it below or visit his website http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/.
I think this is going to be a widely distributed and discussed, and will
make
What an excellent, spot-on critique of Creative Commons.
Creative Commons advocates, directors, and supporters increasingly
describe the project as an attempt to apply the principles of Free
Software, appropriately adapted, to less technical forms of creative
expressions like music,
