Have you read this one?
Very interesting... wouldn't it be better to have submissions to a
working group -- rather than tittle-tattle and conspiracy theory
(yes, I know that conspiracy is what the web looks like it was
originally designed for) ;-)
jwales commenting on the earlier discussion here... 20:43
jwales [14:25] <buridan1>i think there is going to be an attempt to
politicize it though 20:43
jwales [14:25] <rejon>yeah, that is what drive wikipedia, open source
projects, etc 20:43
jwales [14:25] <buridan1>or perhaps the word is 'radicalize' 20:43
jwales [14:25] <rejon>yes 20:43
jwales [14:25] <buridan1>and that was what i was arguing against
yesterday 20:43
jwales I agree with all of that.20:43
jwales I mean, I am glad buridan1 was arguing against radicalization
of that kind.20:44
jwales We are going to be radical no matter what. Even if we resist
it, and try to keep out of radical politics as much as possible, our
very existence and project, the free culture project broadly
considered, is very radical.
...
jwales I am just saying that if someone wants to turn the
icommons.org site into a marxist rant (or an anti-marxist rant) or
whatever, we should resist that and stick to our simple core mission
The simple core mission being that simple core mission that no-one
wants defined....
The question is how can anyone seriously, I mean, SERIOUSLY, believe
that a position they take is *not* political. Unless Jimmy Wales is a
robot, but then that would mean that his programmer would have to
have also been a robot... who would have had to have been a robot
without values programmed by a robot... REGRESS..... programmed by a
toaster or something that definitely doesn't have values.. well I
suppose a toaster might have values about bread or crumpets.. but I
think we can avoid those key bread product values in the iCommons
working group... ;-)
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/irc/%23icommons/%23icommons.
2006-07-14.log.html
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