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"Remember, the bible is closed source."~~~XKCD
the copyright vs open source debate rages on in large sections of the internet, both in logical skirmishes, great wars of rhetoric, and the backstabbing rollrickers, but while I agree that I like getting credit for my work, the awsomeness of some stuff I've seen just wows me. Most Webcomics are free to veiw, even download, and there are still people who make a living at it. Every page of Megatokyo (Fred Gallagher) is available for free on his website, and the URL to the website is provided in the introduction to every paperback edition I've seen. And yet, he does it for a living, seemingly off of teeshirt sales. So do many artists like him even though they are practically encouraging people to just take the stuff and look at the art for free.
Today, I looked up one of my favourite songs, trying to find the lyrics. I found it all right. the official band site had four buttons. Store, Contact, Myspace,... and Downloads? I clicked out of curiosity, wondering, expecting some backgrounds. They had five of their best songs up there, ready to download. I didn't mostly because I already have the CD, but it impressed the heck out of me. I don't know the motivation, but man, swell guys, huh? I don't have either the ear, voice, or musical tallent to compose a song, but I wonder if I would do that? To take a unique thing that I had done, and turn it loose in the world for everyone to see for nothing? I do something like that with my Wikia edits, but thats just minor, paragraph length critiques of someone elses work. And wow, if I had some people discussing something I had done the way the wikia people do (including myself) I might want to just delete it. But it would already be out there, wouldn't it? The confusion that results whenever RPG world (Ian Jones-Quartey) gets edited after a post is so out of proportion that it's funny. But the Firefox phenomenon shows that it can work, that the inaccuracy of Wikia is a discrepancy, not the norm. Or maybe it is a problem, but if Wikia keeps making the mistakes that Firefox makes, I doubt there will be much dispute over it for long.
if you had created a work of some kind, lets say that it took six months of work every day, would you make it open source or closed?
would you trust open source material, such as Firefox and Wikia?
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