Stefan Meretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-11 21:29, David Gerard wrote: > > > Come on, loot at it seriously - from the perspective of the average > > > Joe. He doesn't know what Wikipedia or Free Software is, he just > > > knows that Wikipedia is his first entry on his google search page. > > > Do you think he has realised the philosophical dimensions of > > > Wikipedia or Free Software and believes in it? > > > > No, and that's not what the original says either. But nevertheless, > > out-cooperating is their particular method of out-competing. > > Wikipedia never set out to out-compete Britannica, it just did. > > (Wikipedia's goal is *not* to run a hideously popular and expensive > > website ...) Linux is not out to destroy Microsoft, that will be a > > completely unintentional side-effect. The end results are sufficient, > > the philosophical reasons are only useful if you want to understand > > the truck that just ran over your business. > > True, but we are here to understand, aren't we? > > Remember, the initial question was, if it is good when copyright > vanished. And my answer was: It doesn't matter, proprietary software > will be out-cooperated anyway. But it is not "their particular method", > it is _our_ method when doing free software. Things changes, and in > this case we are the changers. We should be aware of it, we should use > out-cooperating in a positive sense.
I didn't question the whole fact - that's the law of history. But we have to consider time. If we now abolish copyright law, we could really speed up this process. I think in ancient times the slaves know that there will be some point of time when slavery ends - it was a matter of time. But I think all slaves would have been happy to end it very soon. > Ciao, > Stefan Regards Matthias-Christian _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
