> On Jan 12, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Cory Salveson wrote:
>
> Kudos to you, Doug, for speaking up. This has always been my own
> concern with aarg, even as I've taken a lot of joy in seeing it
> evolve over the years.
Thanks. Here's an offlist email I got, one dripping with charm and insight:
> W
Kudos to you, Doug, for speaking up. This has always been my own
concern with aarg, even as I've taken a lot of joy in seeing it
evolve over the years.
Aarg is a brilliant vision of a possible and very desirable future
for knowledge production, in many other ways than the on
do you not think it worthwhile to consider that, today, maybe those who
wanted to buy a book, by an xxxl, s, or any sized author for that
matter, would do that regardless of whether it is on arg or not?
arg is 5 a's.
isn't it, objectively speaking, as in independent of one's vocation,
bet
This reminds of sentiments of small software publishers in the 90s (but
they used to express themselves in more colorful ways.) Ease of copying
killed the cottage software industry (only the big 5 survived), and it's
only now slightly recovering due to proprietary appstore/device platforms.
Pub
dear nettimers, dear everyone,
You may or may not know them personally, but Sean Dockray and Marcell
Mars are at the heart of our extended community. Who's the we? Quite
simply, anyone who has desired to participate.
Knowledge was supposed to be the oil of the 21st century. Despite the
fact th
> On Jan 12, 2016, at 9:41 AM, sebast...@rolux.org wrote:
>
> You're probably worrying too much about the
> big corporations that actually own IP, and almost certainly not
> enough about the small authors that hallucinate IP.
I've got a new little book about Hillary Clinton and it's already up o
Just to add that Sean and Marcell are being sued
- not by a company, but by an individual,
- not by an author, but by a translator, and
- not by someone classically "creative", but by a person whose work
mostly consists in exploiting the differential between French and
Canadian copyright la
