Re: Documentation Standards was Re: [ox-en] UserLinux
- From: Martin Hardie <auskadi tvcabo.co.mz>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:33:27 +0200
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:13, Niall Douglas wrote:
If some top violinist says that all music must be free, would a
sizeable minority of all musicians totally buy into that mantra?
aah I see this is it
yes to say information wants to be free is such a hollow statement. It seesmt
hatt hose who accept it at face value see information as some rareified thing
that is somehow made immune from power/politics/law/desire beacuse we say it
is or wish it to be. The whole mantra as you have called it needs to be
critically analysed. As do the equally facile staments about non rivalrous,
gift economy etc. In my own little way I have been trying to prompt such a
debate but people just want to reply with the mantra and its coordinates.
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