On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jaak Laineste <[email protected]> wrote: >> I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey >> like >> some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done >> by a >> human being and that is not art by this definition? > > Humans create many non-art things. For example databases it > human-created items. Database of phone numbers of a telco operator, > financial accounting database, state registry of roads.
Software, maps, encyclopedias, textbooks... > If two persons > are creating the same database, then only reason why there can be > differences is that there there is clear mistake in one of them, > without any doubt. If two people are creating the same database, then there aren't any differences, because then they wouldn't be the same database. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
