[Wikipedia-l] I don't care what Richard Stallman would say

[Fred Bauder]

I think a little courtesy would go a long way. If you have a fork you can
make different rules especially with respect to images but please respect
Wikipedia's rules too.

Fred

> From: Bjorn Lindqvist <bjrn.lindqvist at telia.com>
> Reply-To: bjrn.lindqvist at telia.com, wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:48:27 +0100
> To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] I don't care what Richard Stallman would say
> 
>> Well, I don't really see it as so much of a race.  Sure, we'd like
>> people to turn to us for information, but as I see it we're just going
>> to so completely dominate everyone with our information that there
>> really is no competition.  Already most people I know IRL turn to
> 
> How about I fork Wikipedia. And while you suckas scramble to try to
> get permission from the probably dead photographer who took the Che
> Guevara-face photo MY fork has more pictures than playboy. Would your
> friends still prefer Wikipedia??
> 
> I want the images. Those who took the images WANT us to use them
> (provided we reference them). Readers want the images. Mirrors of
> Wikipedia want the images. The copyright laws are stupid. GFDL is
> stupid. And the right way to get stupid laws changed is not to obey
> them. 
> 
> Be reasonable.
> 
> BL
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