There's this this talk of "requirements" to use free software to create free
culture.
This should be a requirement if and only if the converse is the case -- that
all free software can create only free culture. To give an example, if a
photographer must use GIMP to crop his photos, and GIMP is free software,
then everything GIMP must "save" or "create" must be free culture -- let's
say released under Creative Commons Attribution.
Would you consider this a reasonable reasonable constraint? I don't.
This question should not be mistaken for asking whether proprietary software
should be required for making free culture. That is not one I'm interested
in answering because the answer seems fairly obvious ("No.").
Fred
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Fred Benenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > You're misunderstanding my question then.
> >
> > It is not about requiring proprietary software, it is about whether free
> > culture should require free software.
> >
> > Do you understand the difference?
>
> I guess not.
>
> Maybe you're not explaining it well enough? ;)
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