[WikiEN-l] Fair use redux; the second coming of hell; Are we a free content or aren't we?

[quiddity]

I've read through these 2 threads again, and I think Durin's initial
post (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077358.html)
and George Herbert's reply
(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/077966.html)
are excellent summations of the issue.

(I'm a reductionist by nature, so, to synopsize even further...)
This seems to be a fundamental disagreement between 2 philosophies:
*The "open-content-first" folks (idealists), and the immediatists
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Immediatism)
and
*The "encyclopedia-first" folks (utilitarians?), and the eventualists
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eventualism)

Does that sound about right?

Quiddity