On 11/28/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand eventualism resulted in the current mess we have with image lisences.
I would disagree. It is not eventualism, but right-now-ism, that leads people to use an unfree image instead of waiting for a free-licensed one to appear. It's not eventualism that leads people to decry free, amateur-produced images as 'not professional enough'.
It's not eventualism that caused people to, for a very long time, utterly ignore the warning on the image upload page stating quite clearly that uploading meant placing under the GFDL and not to upload material you didn't have the rights to. For a very long time, the image upload page implicitly disallowed fair use images, yet people chose to ignore that.
-Matt