Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Thursday 06 July 2006 02:42 pm, Ben McLean wrote:
> Wait a second, I see no problem with offering proprietary software as
> a prize, for these reasons:
> 1. "Free Software" has yet to produce a music program for the PC on
> par with FruityLoops, or at least I've never heard of one.
> 2. "Free Content", acording to Lawrence Lessig's book by that name, is
> in no way opposed to the concept of a "Free Market", thus, offering
> proprietary software as a prize in a contest would not be opposed to
> free content ideals, since "Free Content" and the "Free Market" are
> also supposed to compliment each other.

The second point does not follow as it is entirely to sell Free content in 
the 
Free Market. (Well, perhaps not as Free content is generally protected by 
copyright laws which are, in fact, government granted monopolies and so are 
not really part of a Free market.

As to the first point, I was making a general point/suggestion that people 
who 
are interested in Free should try to promote Free wherever possible. That's 
all.

Or isn't a Free market one in which the government basically doesn't 
intervene? (A big gloss but still.)

all the best,

drew
(da idea man)
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