On 15-Jan-13 2:50 PM, Vijay Anand wrote: > What is your take on Aaron? It looks like with Julian, and now Aaron > (liberating data is the new form of activism) - and not the long route > of creating an organization and lobbying for years and opening it up, > but bruteforce opening (and facing the brutality of it when it > backfires) is what the masses are backing after. It somehow brings me > mental images of public execution of the old powers during the French > Revolution - a bit hasty and bloody for my taste.
We've discussed some of these issues here in the past. One problem with the "creating an organisation and lobbying for years" approach is that getting anything done then becomes and exercise in Zeno's paradox. Example: what happened when Chris Kelty wanted to share his silklist paper with silklist [1]. In this particular instance, arrangements were made to share it with silklist [2], but that is the exception, not the rule. I'd love to hear from anyone who thinks otherwise. [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/13094 [2] http://silk.arachnis.com/anthro/Recursive_Publics.pdf -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
