Re: [ox-en] Re: Free Software and free lists
- From: "." <adam diamat.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:08:34 +0000
Am 2 Nov 2006, um 8:53 hat Stefan Merten geschrieben:
Free Lists can be bad of course - and a lot actually are. But
the process of Free Lists allows for creating superior products. If
this would not be the case then we would not talk of Free Lists at
all because moderated Lists would not allow Free Lists to
raise its head. Karl Dietz has a lots of reasoning about this in his
lists - ah, I guess I did not mentioned these lists here already ;-) .
Mit Freien Grüßen
( is there a link to this reasoning, or could it be paraphrased please )
'free' here appears to be opposed to 'moderated' --
but isn't it really 'self-moderated' as opposed to 'other-moderated'
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 21:10:36 Karl Dietz wrote:
SCNR -
more than one month after the beginning of moderating ox-de
i remember a quote from somewhere, about a character who was only able
to remember his name, because others had shouted it at him so often
other-moderation can and does lead to self-understanding and
consequently to self-moderation
but other-moderation, however well meant, may appear to the moderated as
an arbitrary dictate -- for example, the beneficiaries of a half-secret
trust, or people who assume they are beneficiaries of a secret trust,
have been known to be unappreciative of the words and deeds of the trustee
in a recent paper, *Open standards and unencumbered open standards* [1]
fsfe have categorised 'standards', that is 'shared agreement between
various actors enabling communication between different products or
services' -- mayhaps these are a different set of labels that could be
used to fine grain the labels of self-moderation / other-moderated
-- .
[1]
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/maffulli/docs/open_standards_and_unencumbered_open_standards
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