| Heiko Recktenwald on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 06:09:37 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> "non-commercial"? digest [stalder, geer] |
>"How do you define commercial?" This has become my favorite thing to ask >at CC events, and I have yet to receive a straight-forward reply. Felix, why? Where are the problems? Commercial is something like an action, that is carried out in a commercial entity. The animus lucri faciendi is essential, to become rich or whatever. And we should make a difference between direct and indirect commercial activities. A direct commercial activitty would be Microsoft seeling Windows XP whatever, an indirect commercial activity would be IBM selling servers with Linux installed. The big problem still seems to be to understand that copyright is a good thing. GPL etc are an excercise of copyright, the copyright is still there. Other ideas like "giving away to the public domain", that is possible in germany now too, thanks to the revolutionary work of MPI etc, just makes life easier for big vendors. H. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]