On 26/11/2007, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/11/2007, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Given you can't have both (the source code isn't owned by the BBC) I'd > > be happy with open data. > > Open data would be fantastic, free software + open data would be better. > > > > See my sig. > > > > I did. Cathy Come Home would seem to disprove it as a hypothesis. > > I disagree, it can work on many levels. On one level people were free > to take the ideas from Cathy Come Home and discuss/loby them to get > social change. On another unrelated level would be how society can > re-use and remix the original footage.
I chose my example with care. People were not free (as in freedom) to choose whether or not they wanted to pay for Cathy Come Home to be made in the first place. It they had been granted the freedom not to pay the licence fee, it would never have been made. This renders discussion of use/re-use freedoms somewhat moot. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
