> From: MJ Ray > Absolutely amazed, When you have grown up in an environment in which the 'corporate mentality' is pervasive, it can take sustained and intense effort to deprogram yourself of it - even while you recognise some of its ills.
Thus you have the organisation behind the GPL believing that you shouldn't be able to modify or create derivatives of the GPL. You have organisations promoting cultural liberation and collaboration whilst at the same time adopting many of the worst habits of commercial organisations, and unwittingly hampering collaboration, or even actively dissuading it (except, perhaps, on the organisation's own strict terms). At the end of the day organisations do not own culture, not the commercial ones, and not even the ones promoting cultural liberation. Do your own thing, or collaborate with people who'd like to collaborate with you. In the latter case, the feeling has to be mutual, and the terms mutually agreeable. People are still human. There are still going to be 'playground rules', cliques, gangs, pals, loners, bullies, and the bullied. But, at least, however shiny or dull our haloes, we're united against the unethical privileges of copyright and patent. Well, I don't know about you, but I am. ;-) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
