Who Gets to Define Freedom?
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| Lessig and I agreed that its likely that, eventually, some standard
| (or standards) of freedom will take hold. Like me, Lessig seems to think
| that this is a good thing. We both agree that there will be, and should
| be, competing definitions of freedom, competing social movements, and a
| long conversation about what essential freedom really to creative works
| is before we get there.
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| To illustrate why this is not a problem, we can look again to frees
| oftware. In the free software community, we see that Richard Stallman
| does not speak for the programming community at large when it comes
| to defining essential freedoms to code.
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http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/ip/20060926-00
Interesting read. The OSS initiative seems likely to affect content and
social aspects of life as a side effect.
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