Mr. Bad on Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:38:56 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Sounds like it could be handy |
>>>>> "BS" == Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> writes: BS> At present, over 800 out of a planned total of 1001 titles are BS> available, all from Prelinger Archives. All may be downloaded BS> and reused for free, with no restrictions other than that the BS> films cannot be resold or licensed by anyone in their entirety BS> or as stock footage. Our intention is that these titles BS> should circulate freely as "open-source" content. I just got a copy of this announcement, and although I'm happy to see an effort to make some Free Content available, overall I think it stinks. First of all, putting restrictions on further use that don't do anything to guarantee freedom is NOT what Open Source is about. I highly recommend that you read the Open Source Institute's Open Source Definition: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html Specifically, Open Source software can be sold for money. Why can't I sell your archived movies? Or show them in a theater? Why? Why? Why? Second, if most of the movies are in the public domain, why try to put -any- restrictions on them? Gar gar gar'ing, ~Mr. Bad -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr. Bad <mr.bad@pigdog.org> | Pigdog Journal | http://pigdog.org/ freenet:MSK@SSK@u1AntQcZ81Y4c2tJKd1M87cZvPoQAge/pigdog+journal// "Statements like this give the impression that this article was written by a madman in a drug induced rage" -- Ben Franklin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net