Dear Dave (3WD), I'm glad that Rasheed explained 3/7 14:29 -0400 to me a bit about American sarcasm, but I still don't completely understand your position I'm afraid. Can you please explain yourself to me?
Did you understand my position? I consider whatever I write on this list and on an wiki-site to be public already and without copyrights. I expect people to respect my authorship if I attach my name to it. That means that they only copy it and quote it with my name (and if applicable the way to contact me) still added to it and without damaging the content. I would like to be informed of copying and extensive quotations. On a wiki-page the way to do this would be to leave a message 'this page has been copied to...', I think. A wiki-text that has no name attached to it, can be supposed to be created by a group of people and is probably part of a 'network' of wiki-pages that refer to each other. One would have to try not damage that 'network' and -when copying- making enough links back to the original and its referring pages to make sure that it is still reachable from that network and doesn't get another meaning because of the changing context (= referring pages, in this case). Christopher seems to have made some mistakes, but not intentionally (having read about his attempts to reach the MF-list) and not very serious from my point of view. I see a parallel with the discussion about the Dan's right to use Lila Squad posts for writing Lila's Child some 8 months ago. I have a feeling that internet as a whole (compared to publishing by printing and selling texts) is an experiment in lessening attachment of people to ideas (identification with ideas). If I create an idea, I don't feel it is 'mine' anymore when I 'share' it with others. It becomes part of an intellectual pattern of values that is much bigger than 'me'. This can't be reconciled with the idea of copyrights. Society may have to change to accommodate this characteristic of internet. With friendly greetings, Wim MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
