Comments on: ‘Tis the season… http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/04/tis-the-season/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 19:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Martin Wisse http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/04/tis-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-126836 Martin Wisse Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:45:45 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4088#comment-126836 Of all the worthwhile charities int he world, why the hell would you spent money on yet another dubious geek project? Of all the worthwhile charities int he world, why the hell would you spent money on yet another dubious geek project?

]]> By: KCinDC http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/04/tis-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-126794 KCinDC Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:41:30 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4088#comment-126794 Argh, WordPress is spreading the "smart"-quote illness popularized by MS Word. The thing before "Tis" in the title should of course be an apostrophe, not an opening single quote. Argh, WordPress is spreading the “smart”-quote illness popularized by MS Word. The thing before “Tis” in the title should of course be an apostrophe, not an opening single quote.

]]> By: John Noir http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/04/tis-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-126793 John Noir Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:20:14 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4088#comment-126793 Eszter: Traditional copyright, not CC, is the default for new users at flickr. I'd bet that at least half of flickr users aren't even aware of the CC option. Anon (7:28pm): The article you link to doesn't persuade me that CC is "not all that great." Its author would rather have a single CC license, or small group of them, which impose few restrictions on the users. He points to GPL as a model for that. But on the other hand some people think that there should be more flexibility in GPL. That's a debate, not a slam dunk. The author also would prefer a version of CC which "call[s] for a world where 'essential rights are unreservable' ... in an era of free information. " This sounds dubious --- and more to the point, it is simply not the purpose of CC. Eszter: Traditional copyright, not CC, is the default for new users at flickr. I’d bet that at least half of flickr users aren’t even aware of the CC option.

Anon (7:28pm): The article you link to doesn’t persuade me that CC is “not all that great.” Its author would rather have a single CC license, or small group of them, which impose few restrictions on the users. He points to GPL as a model for that. But on the other hand some people think that there should be more flexibility in GPL. That’s a debate, not a slam dunk. The author also would prefer a version of CC which “call[s] for a world where ‘essential rights are unreservable’ … in an era of free information. ” This sounds dubious—- and more to the point, it is simply not the purpose of CC.

]]> By: anon http://crookedtimber.org/2005/12/04/tis-the-season/comment-page-1/#comment-126792 anon Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:28:36 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4088#comment-126792 <a href="http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html" rel="nofollow">CC's not all that great</a>. CC’s not all that great.

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