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Discontent with LiveContent

“Perhaps Creative Commons’ LiveContent 1.0 CD would work better
if more clearly defined. Its Web page enthuses that the project is
‘an umbrella idea which aims to connect and expand Creative Commons
and open source communities,’ adding that it ‘works to identify
creators and content providers working to share their creations
more easily’ and ‘works to support developers and others who build
build better technology to distribute these works.’ In other words,
LiveContent is a sampler of free content and free software, but
this purpose seems lost in a cloud of rhetoric, even to project
members. The CD suffers from lackluster presentation, a mediocre
assortment of samplers, and a lack of explanation…”

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Related Story:
Fedora 7
Does Creative Commons
(Aug 07, 2007)

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