[Upd-discuss] climate change info by distributed computing

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Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:50:18 +0100 (BST) Adam Moran wrote:

>     Isn't the public domain about maintaining a knowledge base so that it
>     can be used by the public for the public ?

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:18:19 -0400 (EDT) Richard Stallman wrote:

> That is what the public domain is--but this is not a list for
> posting any and all public domain knowledge.  This list is for discussing
> the activities of the Union for the Public Domain, which aims to preserve
> and extend the public domain.

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:35:19 +0100 (BST) dr who wrote:

> i'm off to get more reading matter, but i've had a thought:
> 
> is the public domain where lost characters are kept ?

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Michael Hart wrote:

> The truth is that the public domain is becoming an ever shrinking domain,
> containing a smaller percentage of the world'd information, from an older
> and older portion of history.
> 
> We live in an era in which we get more and more information THEY want US
> to be exposed to, and less and less information of the grand total.

who are the 'they', and who are the 'we' ... more over, who is the 'i' ?

i used to know this big lad really well ... he used to read loads, and i
mean loads

i remember, he got a 'd' grade in an essay once -- the teacher's remark
read: 'too similar to lawrence'

   "i have read everything published by lawrence; i know his art ...
therefore i am lawrence" -- was his retort

well, if he was lawrence, he was certainly a lot of other folk too --
aren't we all though ?

isn't everybody a unique collection of characters
we resemble our ancestors, but we are ourselves;
we talk like the folk that cared and care for us, but we are ourselves

but i mean,
if this list,
is about preserving and extending
a common knowledge base
then it is the front
of an information war

but then aren't all wars information wars
i draw on my ancestor's oral testimony

from those who dug in, in WWII
telling jokes and telling better futures

to those occupied in dark houses by window tax
sang their mother tongue in riddles
behind dry cold stone pillars

"keep the faith,
  feel the leather
  speak the tongue
  burn with feathers"