On 15 July 2011 01:03, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. They're a very very special tool, but software not a reasonable definition for a movement. The Unnamed Movement should be software-neutral, if not in name then CERTAINLY in practice.
It's a thing and it exists and it's a concept that needs a name.
I tend to call it "the free culture" in my head (which has the annoyance that "free" is ambiguous in English).
e.g. discussing how particular people think, "X is a free culture native. Y isn't, but is slowly getting the idea."
(The only reason this needs a separate name is Creative Commons pushing and continuing to push -NC and -ND. I and we continue to love CC, but what they do is *not quite* what we do.)
- d.