On 21/09/2011 17:11, Marc Lavallée wrote:
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"Information wants to be free" is a 40 years old aphorism, not a scientific
statement, and it does not come from the free software movement. Its author
said later: "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be
expensive.".
More like 27 years. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
So, two anthropomorphic statements, which form an opposition or an
extended oxymoron. Perhaps a bit like "money wants to be free".
According to that page, Stallman reformulated it to use the phrase
"generally useful information" together with the inevitable "should" -
without indicating who or what decides what qualifies as "generally
useful". Presumably the same disinterested people (anyone other than the
author, in fact) who decide whether to 'agree' I own something, or not,
as the case may be.
Richard Dobson
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