Preaching to the unconverted
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| While some local artists are already reaping benefits from
| CC-licensed content, government documents created with tax money
| still insist on restrictive copyright measures.
|
| This is according to Heather Ford, executive director Creative
| Commons South Africa. Talking at the Digital Freedom Expo in
| Cape Town last week, Ford said that selling the concept
| initially was an uphill battle.
|
| [...]
|
| "By sharing culture rather than having it stolen [we are]
| replacing ready-made culture with home-grown culture," said Ford.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1471
Where all the open source parasites?
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| Hugh MacLeod is at it again. He asks the question, if open source
| is so great, where are all the open source billionaires (as if that
| is the right way to gauge the success of the software)? Never mind
| that we could ask the same question of proprietary software: "Where
| are all the proprietary billionaires?" There just aren't that many.
| There aren't even that many proprietary software companies that do
| over $1B/year in revenues.
|
| Will open source pass the $1B barrier? Yes, it will. But just as
| with the proprietary old world, it will take open source's new
| world a few years.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/where_all_the_o.html
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