Comments on: Not Free Enough

By: KEvin H

KEvin H — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:18:39 +0000

Hey Jason,

It’s free enough for me. Thanks for making it free at all.

By: Andrew Amrstrong

Andrew Amrstrong — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:11:44 +0000

Great post Jason, on the reasons for putting anything under a noncommercial licence. I mean, it’s still a film that will be available, as long someone hosts it for free, on the internet. I think that goes a lot further then most people, and retaining your rights (and more so on those materials you’ve been given permission to use) is important

I think you put forward the main point in your summary, and that article does seem entirely off the point. Oh well, if they don’t want to watch it because of the licence used, their loss.

By: Shii

Shii — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:09:15 +0000

When I read that essay, the first thing I did was go back to my own website and write this in response:

There have been rumors on the Internets that caring so much about non-commercial use is a detriment to the free culture movement. A single teardrop falls from my eyes for the cause of the Google spammers who would love so much for me to make my work a common good for their exploitation. Sorry, folks, I wrote this, not you. It is not my intention to donate my thoughts to the malicious content harvest. If any money is made from these articles it should go to Y.T. so I can spend it on candy.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:48:44 +0000

Funnily enough, I consider Benjamin Mako Hill a buddy. We’ll both be at Penguincon this year, for example. He lives right near me, and I borrowed his OLPC for my OLPC rant at Shmoocon last year. Him, I like.

By: James

James — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:55:54 +0000

Another instigator of the site is mako.cc who comes from a Debian background. I’ll leave it to the reader to look up the DSFG, RFCs and GNU manuals.