Free love!
Free Nelson Mandela with every 10 gallons (sorry 50 litres)!
Interesting meditation on the sloppy thought that
Information wants to be free (IWTBF)by Cory Doctorow in the Grauniad
It's time for IWTBF to die because it's become the easiest, laziest straw man for Hollywood's authoritarian bullies to throw up as a justification for the monotonic increase of surveillance, control, and censorship in our networks and tools. I can imagine them saying: "These people only want network freedom because they believe that 'information wants to be free'. They pretend to be concerned about freedom, but the only 'free' they care about is 'free of charge.'"Oh no they don't!
They want open access to the data and media produced at public expense, because this makes better science, better knowledge, and better culture – and because they already paid for it with their tax and licence fees.Amen. Here endeth the first sermon, and while you're at it where is that free beverage and the dancing girls!
