[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?
Gareth Owen
wiki at gwowen.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Feb 19 18:17:19 UTC 2004
"Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" <daniel at copyleft.no> writes:
> On 19 Feb 2004, Gareth Owen wrote:
> > Wikipedia isn't hosted in an island state.
> > This is a thoroughly idiotic, strawman argument.
>
> No, it's an "reductio ad absurdum" argument.
Doing something illegal (copying encyclopedias) is not any kind of
reduction of entirely legal actions.
> And it's not idiotic.
I beg to differ, for the reason stated above.
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Gareth Owen
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