Le Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:12:47 +0100, Richard Dobson <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On 21/09/2011 17:11, Marc Lavallée wrote: > .. > > > > "Information wants to be free" is a 40 years old aphorism, not a > > scientific statement, and it does not come from the free software > > movement. Its author said later: "Information Wants To Be Free. > > Information also wants to be expensive.". > > > > More like 27 years. See: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free You are right. It was in 1984. Here's the authoritative source: http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/SB_homepage/Info_free_story.html This is freely available information, attributed to the author himself. > According to that page, Stallman reformulated it to use the phrase > "generally useful information" together with the inevitable "should" > - without indicating who or what decides what qualifies as "generally > useful". Who? Yourself, if you want. What? Any organization, for example. We're collectively responsible. > Presumably the same disinterested people (anyone other than > the author, in fact) who decide whether to 'agree' I own something, > or not, as the case may be. You can claim that you own something, like the expression of an idea. Then wait for interested people to complain... If you don't want your work (or "claimed original expression of an idea") to be owned at all, you can release it into the public domain. Then wait for interested people to complain or create interesting derivative works. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
