[p2p-research] Jimmy Wales on the (Encyclopedic) Value of Sharing

[Ryan]

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(Encyclopedic) Value of Sharing via GOOD Main by Eric Steuer on 9/17/09

Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.

I had been watching the growth of the free and open source software
movements for a few years, and I was thinking about people coming
together and collaborating. What was really making that world possible
is that people devised these licenses that allow, for example,
programmers to share their work with other programmers, who could copy
it, redistribute it, and modify it. This licensing method took away a
lot…




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