[cc-community] Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music

Fred Beneson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 22:55:55 EST 2007



On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:49 PM, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com 
 > wrote:

> Evan Prodromou wrote:
>> The difference is that we had all the arguments about people starving
>> from Free Software 15-20 years ago, and we're only having the  
>> arguments
>> about people starving from Free Content today.
>
> You've missed my point entirely. Please see my other reply.
>
> Free software works because authors DON'T starve to death.
>
> Were they to, it would've failed! What we need for the promotion of  
> free
> content is a similarly successful regime for free culture -- NOT a
> willingness to starve.
>
> Nor does it automatically follow that the same economic models will  
> work
> for content that work for software -- it is quite possible that we  
> must
> develop very different strategies for success. Thus, behaving as if  
> the
> problem were already solved when it is not is counterproductive.
>
> Please READ before knee-jerk reacting. You respond as if I suggested
> that free-licensing art was a bad thing. I did not. I said that
> "altruism" is not a good model for promoting it.

Which *was* my point from the beginning. I'm not really sure what the  
point of all these hypotheticals is...

F

>
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
> -- 
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