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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:20 AM, wrote:
In a message dated 1/21/2009 9:17:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com writes:
- free—as in the sense of freedom, not necessarily in the sense of beer;
- reliable—in other words, accurate, coherent, and neutral; and
- global—that is, multilingual and written by a diverse, broad group of
people.
Britannica might be reliable, and it might become slightly global, but it is not yet multilingual and it isn't free.>>
What evidence do you have that an encyclopedia must be free?
Society has existed for a few thousand years without a free encyclopedia.
A statement trivially true. Society has also existed for a few thousand years without copyright, period.