Steren wrote: > I was introduced to the US Free Culture movement earlier this summer. > As far as I can see, I totally share your views but when it comes to > decisions and actions, I must reckon I'm lost. > I think there is a lack of constructive initiative. Obviously, this > could change easily starting by this mailing list. There are topics > and people have to stick to them. > > Steren > Creative Commons Intern > Lyon, France. >
Well, I've been a mostly lurking member of this list since it's foundation, or very nearly it's foundation. (no, I'm not a founder) I can honestly say that during the early few years, this list was very active and very well self directed. In many ways, as a group we have seem to have lost our way. I don't think that this is due to any one person, myself. I think, perhaps, the movers that have been on this list have either dedicated more of their efforts to many other worthy causes; or simply burnt out, graduated and moved on. The problem with restricting the flow of information, based on the opinions of the readers instead of the posters, is that this list would then become the same kind of structured system that this list exists to combat. I'm not sure which would be worse for this cause, a regulated forum of ideas, or a bazaar of ideas with a very high noise to signal ratio. Posts requesting that members self regulate are one thing, advocating regulations upon the freedom of speech of the membership something else altogether. Certainly, the noise can be annoying and counterproductive, but I don't think anyone who truly believes in Free Culture, the Creative Commons, and the worthy collection of works that share the FSF's licenses could function for long within a forum that limited what *they* considered to be relevant enough to post. Most would either go independent, or fork a list more to their own liking. Either way, the end result would be the division of forces and breakdown of goodwill between two like minded camps. Kinda like a church split, gives everyone a bad taste. Creighton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
