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[Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Rob Myers wrote:

> The Noncommercial licenses allow work to be promoted and later charged for.
> The Sharealike licenses allow access to a pool of existing material.
> The Noderivs licenses allow work to circulate withouit being used as part 
> of a wider work.
> The Attribution licenses give publicity.

All CC licences can be used to build 'critical mass' in a media,
forum, channel, encoding, etc.
All CC licences can be used as a point of differentiation from
traditionally licensed content.

> A software company like Red Hat can be viewed as having made 
> its millions by adding editorial value to free content (the
> editorialising being the assembly of the distro and the
> content being the Free Software code).

Red Hat does make money by selling free content with added editorial
value, it also makes money from certification (of software, hardware
and individuals), from consulting, from contract programming
(typically migrating applications to Red Hat or support for new
hardware), publishing, etc.

cheers
stuart
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