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Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress
inode_buddha writes "Groklaw has just received an invitation to be archived in the Library of Congress. In true FOSS style, PJ has decided to ask all the contributors and commenters if they wish to be included, since commenters own the copyrights on their comments. So far, the answer seems to be 'yes,' even for Anonymous Cowards. It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person."
Explain that in your response to Groklaw and let them figure it out.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
That's not quite true. Even shortly after the Federalist Papers came out the set of authors was narrowed down quite a bit by intelligent speculation. Hamilton, John Jay and Madison were all named as possible authors (and in fact they were the three authors). After Hamilton died, documents in his possession showed that he was definitely an author and indicated that Madison was also an author. Moreover, there's a fair bit of evidence that when the essays were initially published, many people involved with the publishing and proof-reading knew who the authors were. What is more accurate is that it wasn't until much more modern work by historian Douglass Adair that we had a very good idea which were authored by which of the three. However, even that was well-established by 1970. So the comparison to AC is interesting but not so accurate.
And what about all the people she "anonymised" when she deleted their accounts, but not their comments?
(most notably John Gabriel, but others as well.)
It is my firm belief that all anonymous posts are public domain.
It is precisely like someone shouting in a square -- and that's why I always choose to go anonymous.
I want what I say to be judged on its own merits -- praised or rejected, whatever.
That /. in practice relegated ACs to oblivion looks like totally idiotic to me (though I recognize jerks usually post anonymously)... we need a better system.
Karma is only desired by those who must collect it with daily zeal; the truly enlightened, by the proper definition of the word, don't want karma.
(I apologize for the hubris shown).