Re: <nettime> Benjamin Mako Hill on Creative Commons

[Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi, nice questions.

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, august wrote:

> 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 when I hear advocates arguing the efficient
> definition of "freedom" as it pertains to software distribution, I
> think of George Bush, the wars on "terror", and NAFTA?

The author of the cathedral and the bazar and fetchmail after 9/11....

H.


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