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Information wants to be $100,000.
by kauffj 11y ago
Information wants to be $100,000.
- snowwrestler 11y agoThe actual original quote is: "Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive." The second half frequently gets forgotten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
- StavrosK 11y agoWait, so the quote actually means "information wants to be gratis", rather than "information wants to be libre"? I've been parsing it wrong this whole time.
- JonnieCache 11y agoYeah, its actually about technology forcing prices to 0.
- snowwrestler 11y agoYes, and I think that the distinction between "gratis" and "libre" is not actually that clear. When folks pirate movies they wave the banner of libre, but they are also getting their movie gratis. What would a piece of information look like that is libre but not gratis? In the free software movement, the whole point is to permit end users to acquire and share the source code, which for software is the entire product. There's no mechanism to charge for things that anyone can share with anyone else.
- StavrosK 11y agoPersonally, I don't want movies to be gratis or libre, I just want the MPAA to stop clinging to its antiquated business model by hook or crook. Something that is libre but not gratis looks like many things today, like websites, services, etc that don't change you directly. Patreon is a good example of such a business model.
- yellowapple 11y ago> What would a piece of information look like that is libre but not gratis? There are quite a few FOSS projects that cost money, Red Hat Enterprise Linux being the de facto textbook example.
- snowwrestler 11y agoRHEL is available for free under the name CentOS. Red Hat makes their revenue selling support, not information.