Ops, sorry, I realize that this was not posted to the list.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex R." alex756@nyc.rr.com To: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@ctelco.net Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikilists and GDFL
From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@ctelco.net
How is it collaborative, open or free content to allow others to ignore the contributions of our co-contributors?
Part of collaboration in an open content context is the opportunity to discard material that is wrong or not useful.
Fred
With all due respect Fred, where does it say that? And how can you assume that material that is contributed to Wikipedia is wrong or not useful? This seems like a dangeous way of looking at the kind of collaboration that we are undertaking. What you are essentially saying is that if someone uses the internet to develop open content that even that process of development can be bastardized. I think that is too literal reading of what open content means. Even open content has to have the right to be developed.