Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread Peter Gervai
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 08:17, Ryan Lomonaco wrote: > As Andrew pointed out, this discussion has spiraled entirely outside the > scope of this list.  Discussions on the effects of copyright law with regard > to Wikimedia and its projects are welcome.  General discussions on copyright > law and pira

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
As Andrew pointed out, this discussion has spiraled entirely outside the scope of this list. Discussions on the effects of copyright law with regard to Wikimedia and its projects are welcome. General discussions on copyright law and piracy that have little to do with Wikimedia should be taken els

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread wiki-list
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 7/2/2010 3:20:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: > > >> Nothing competes with free, why would you pay for an album when your >> mates just download it for nothing? >> > > Gee I don't know. Why are people still rentin

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread wiki-list
Yann Forget wrote: > Hello, > > 2010/7/2 : >> wjhon...@aol.com wrote: If a way of halting the gross infringements can't be done. Then go back to hitting the seeders with $22,000 fines per infringed work. The economic costs of simply walking away and not stopping the piracy are >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 7/2/2010 3:20:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes: > Nothing competes with free, why would you pay for an album when your > mates just download it for nothing? >> Gee I don't know. Why are people still renting videos from Netflix when you can wa

Re: [Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

2010-07-02 Thread wiki-list
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 7/1/2010 9:49:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > yan...@gmail.com writes: > > >> The point is that the publishing industry _has_ to review its economic >> model >> with the new technical situation which is the Internet, and whether it >> publishes music,

Re: [Foundation-l] Self-determination of language versions in questions of skin?

2010-07-02 Thread Erik Moeller
2010/6/28 Tim Starling : > In this case, I would recommend a process of negotiation. Detail your > concerns in Bugzilla, and give the developers time to respond to them. This is good advice. I want to add that there's something very unusual about the work that's been done over the last year, relat

[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Rand Montoya leaving Wikimedia Foundation

2010-07-02 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello all, I regret to inform you that Rand Montoya will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. His last day with us will be September 30, 2010. Rand has generously agreed to support and advise us for the next three months as we're gearing up for the 2010 fundraiser while he looks for opportunities

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-07-02 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Noein wrote: > Also, for illiterate persons, it would be great to include a "play" > button that would automatically read the article out loud. It should be > included so that illiterate persons don't have to install their own > text-to-speech software. This is gre

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-07-02 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just my 2c thoughts exploring the idea. I don't know if wikipedia should have a chapter specific to children because it would be culturally biased by our views about education. I think it would be better to aim for a specific psychological profile and