I just came accross this brilliant quote from George Bernard Shaw, Irish literary critic and playwright, literature Nobel laureate in 1925.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
It verbalizes very simply — of course, and poetically — the whole issue about copyright vs. read-and-write culture, collaborative knowledge and the democratization of the means of intellectual production. I found this upon reading a text from Sérgio Amadeu, one of the champions of the free-software movement in Brazil. It’s a fierce defense of the values of cultural diversity through digital diversity. The text is here. (only in Brazilian Portuguese)
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