There is an easy answer to this problem: work in the public domain, giving your work freely to everyone, and then accept voluntary donations (gifts) from those that appreciate or build on it.
Ask the street corner musician who plays for everyone and lives off of the gifts from those that appreciate his work... It works.
My whole website is in the Public Domain. For detailed arguments why Public Domain is the answer, see http://betterdifferent.com/copyright/
-N888
ps view daily videos from my Nokia 6600 of my adventures at Burning Man next week (Aug 30-Sep6 and every day for that matter): http://nate88.textamerica.com/
"According to researchers at The University of California at Berkeley, more information will be created in the next 3 years then in the previous 300,000 years."
No, just a lot more is being noticed, recorded and saved. All that information was already there.
It is a communication from another dimension. We need to drum back and do whatever we can think up to let them know we are hearing something. We should probably record it and store it permanently somewhere for millions of years... creating a feedback loop with the future.
"God" is a time-travelling historian, back to help us avoid mistakes because he realizes that helping us helps him... we are all connected. He is getting better and better at communicating with us (past attempts have been helpful but left us somewhat confused). This is where it starts getting good!
"Non-GPL soft[ware] lets anyone make a non-free version dominant by adding significantly important features in non-free code. "
This comment seems of topic, but I want to respond to it. I am a supporter of public domain software development, exactly because of this phenomenon, not in spite of it. The non-free (proprietary, copyrighted) developers must expend enormous resources to hire the thinkers, developers and marketers that invent, code, test, and try out these new features in the marketplace. They often fail.
When new and valuable features do come from the traditional software development model, free software developers are free to re-code the features and even improve on them, merging their changes with the public code base.
This is not all conjecture. Non-free versions of the Zope web application server (BSD licensed, so nearly public domain) exist, and developers contribute to the free code base.
ps I want to save a detailed history of my Google searches, the resulting links and the ones I visited (the actual content, not just a link!) so 50 years from now my children can research what it was like to live in 2004, and can better understand their father.
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There is an easy answer to this problem: work in the public domain, giving your work freely to everyone, and then accept voluntary donations (gifts) from those that appreciate or build on it. Ask the street corner musician who plays for everyone and lives off of the gifts from those that appreciate his work... It works. My whole website is in the Public Domain. For detailed arguments why Public Domain is the answer, see http://betterdifferent.com/copyright/ -N888 ps view daily videos from my Nokia 6600 of my adventures at Burning Man next week (Aug 30-Sep6 and every day for that matter): http://nate88.textamerica.com/
When you can uniquely identify your cell phone via an RFID tag inside of it, you can use it to unlock your car doors, house, etc.
See the RFID in Your Thumb idea on Whynot.net
"According to researchers at The University of California at Berkeley, more information will be created in the next 3 years then in the previous 300,000 years."
No, just a lot more is being noticed, recorded and saved. All that information was already there.
-Nate
betterdifferent.com
It is a communication from another dimension. We need to drum back and do whatever we can think up to let them know we are hearing something. We should probably record it and store it permanently somewhere for millions of years... creating a feedback loop with the future.
"God" is a time-travelling historian, back to help us avoid mistakes because he realizes that helping us helps him... we are all connected. He is getting better and better at communicating with us (past attempts have been helpful but left us somewhat confused). This is where it starts getting good!
betterdifferent.com/religion
nate
"Non-GPL soft[ware] lets anyone make a non-free version dominant by adding significantly important features in non-free code. "
This comment seems of topic, but I want to respond to it. I am a supporter of public domain software development, exactly because of this phenomenon, not in spite of it. The non-free (proprietary, copyrighted) developers must expend enormous resources to hire the thinkers, developers and marketers that invent, code, test, and try out these new features in the marketplace. They often fail.
When new and valuable features do come from the traditional software development model, free software developers are free to re-code the features and even improve on them, merging their changes with the public code base.
This is not all conjecture. Non-free versions of the Zope web application server (BSD licensed, so nearly public domain) exist, and developers contribute to the free code base.
For a more detailed example, please this letter on my website: http://betterdifferent.com/software/zwikilicense/
And here for a letter to the Open Source Initiative: http://betterdifferent.com/software/osi
-nate
betterdifferent.com
ps I want to save a detailed history of my Google searches, the resulting links and the ones I visited (the actual content, not just a link!) so 50 years from now my children can research what it was like to live in 2004, and can better understand their father.