crazy world.. (and podcasts, audiobooks etc)

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sat Mar 11 08:15:45 GMT 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 10:08 +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:38:56PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > >> They then release the entire book under the CC (Creative
> > >> Commons) License and record the audio book in a proprietary
> > >> audio codec.
> > > Does it bother you that much?
> > It doesn
> 
> "Count me out ...in" (c) Lennon, "Revolution"
> 
> Explain please.
> 
> > have to bother us to find it odd that a book would be released
> > under a free license but in a proprietary format.  
> 
> These are orthogonal.  Are you personally running LinuxBIOS along
> with a (presumably) free OS, or vendor-provided one?

His point was that the book is about intellectual property and the
history of corporate entities stifling creation. This _is_ inconsistent
with releasing it as an MP3. Read his posts, and give him a break.

M
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