Gwern Branwen wrote: >> In a message dated 1/21/2009 larsen.thoma...@gmail.com writes: >> >> >> 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. > > And for most of those few thousand years there were no printing presses. Copyright without printing presses was meaningless.
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