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A crew is arriving at your house tonight
to take anything that you haven't polished, used,
or otherwise shared with your neighbors. If you
object, we won't cut you in on the spoils and we
may burn down your house leaving; if you
help us, we will let your house stand, but we
will own your silver for the good of the commons.
To the true inventors: if you have a valuable idea or
innovation and the moxie to build it, PATENT IT
AND KEEP IT PROPRIETARY. That is the only
way the local laws will help you fight the
web pirates who are flying the flag of community
instead of the skull and crossbones.
Queen Elizabeth I decorated her buccaneers until
the winds of world politics shifted. Then she
tossed 'em in jail.
len
From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@virgilio.it]
Anyhow, I only wanted to say that there wasn't only Tim's veteran's-eye view
of the situation (which is a big plus for the project), there was also the
emerging view of the group, and that the two didn't entirely coincide. The
biggest deviation so far is in an area that to an outsider might look
trivial - the non-use of the name RSS (the current working name is now
Echo). But the naming issue has probably been the biggest single fan of
flames in the RSS fork inferno, and there were many that would only support
a New Format if the name (and its political baggage) were dropped.
Using a different name also brings a great psychological/practical gain - it
feels ok to tear things up and start again. Has XUL really reached the point
where that is the only clear route forward?
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