Gwern Branwen wrote:
In a message dated 1/21/2009 larsen.thomas.h@gmail.com writes:
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.
And for most of those few thousand years there were no printing presses. Copyright without printing presses was meaningless.
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