[WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

[Ray Saintonge]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> In a message dated 1/21/2009 larsen.thomas.h at 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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