-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 AM, wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEAREKAAYFAkl4kr4ACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oKbEQCcC5i02/SXa2EgSuncpVydj+h2 9jkAniovyrPUW4o0MW5Xl1kCvy50afRD =hWcx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > In a message dated 1/21/2009 9:17:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, > larsen.thoma...@gmail.com writes: > > * free—as in the sense of freedom, not necessarily in the sense of beer; > * reliable—in other words, accurate, coherent, and neutral; and > * global—that is, multilingual and written by a diverse, broad group of > people. > > Britannica might be reliable, and it might become slightly global, but > it is not yet multilingual and it isn't free.>> > > > ------------- > What evidence do you have that an encyclopedia must be free? > > Society has existed for a few thousand years without a free encyclopedia. A statement trivially true. Society has also existed for a few thousand years without copyright, period. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
