On 11/28/05, Mike Finucane <mike_finucane(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
postscript. I may contribute some images, I'll
have to consider the
matter more deeply now. Perhaps some images that no commercial company
would want to use; or perhaps a resolution unsuited to commercial
useage.
Heh just upload them unser the GFDL. Certian issues with the lisence
means that images released under it are pretty much useless for
conventional comercial use
I'll continue to contribute information; but the
idea that
someday some Mogul might squeeze Wikipedia out of existence, and
incorporate its assets, just as surely as Netscape was lost to
AOL-Time-Warner, will probably have an affect on my desire to help
create something new. A world asset which was never saleable to the
highest bidder.
GFDL makes sure it can be sold to the highest bidder because there is
nothing to stop someone copying what the highest bidder has just
bought. I recall that necscape was originaly a comercial company. It's
code was released and I belive was the basis on which the monzilla and
firefox browsers were built.
--
geni