On Thursday 24 March 2005 23:43, Daniel Carrera wrote: > I just saw that Yahoo had added a search specific for Creative > Commons material:
Hi Daniel, Wow, is this big. Open source software ain't no good without open content to play on free boxes. I once told Michael Robertson that I thought that the Creative Commons was going to help open source by becoming one of the very big markets in the world for the exchange of culture that will be useable on open source boxes. He wasn't buying it. Linspire, of course, can already play lots of stuff that other distros can't, but as the pot of creative content that will play on all types of GNU/Linux distros gets bigger, that will just lift all Linux distros. So here we are, Michael, the only site in the world that has more incoming links than MP3.com is now indexing the Creative Commons. Now to be fair, I wanna put in a plug here for Linspire's MP3tunes.com site. They will sell you music that you can legally rip and burn. Maybe not mix legally, though. But at least there is no DRM, and they have a good ranking system so that you can see what other people are listening to. Plus they have bands that the Creative Commons might not have, like the Yardbirds. And they have a cover of "Fever" by Linda Lu that maybe the CC doesn't have. Plus MP3tunes has a music locker so that if you lose your cheapo MP3 player (forget iPods!) you have not lost your music. You can just go and download it again for free, I guess. Plus they have a device that will let you listen to that music on your cell phone, wherever you get cell service, and it will also let you beam your music around your house. That device is the MP3beamer, which is here: http://sub300.com/ Here is the MP3tunes store: http://mp3tunes.com/ So MP3tunes gives you service that you otherwise would not have had, and since their prices at 88 cents USD, it's below iTunes, etc. So Linspire's solution is sort of like its Linux distro: They charge for service that you otherwise would not get, but they don't lock you down like MS or Disney or Apple, etc. In short, the Linux shopping mall just got a WHOLE lot bigger. Admit it, Michael, I'm right! Ain't I a snot sometimes? heh. At any rate, I thought that this whole thing was so important that I put it on the front page of the Digital Tipping Point website: http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com > > http://search.yahoo.com/cc > > This is cool. It means that: > 1) It's easier for one to find CC material. > 2) It's easier for one to get one's CC material found. > > Yay! I love Creative Commons. Here's a story about it on News.com > > http://news.com.com/Yahoo+adds+search+for+flexible+copyright+cont >ent/2100-1038_3-5633649.html > > Cheers,
