Dvorak on Creative Commons
[Note: I was webmaster for EFF when Creative Commons launched and Lawrence Lessig is on the board of EFF...so yeah, I'm biased towards Creative Commons]
John Dvorak makes his living by writing columns that attempt to stir up the pot to get more traffic to PC Magazine's ad-laden website. His current column, to which I will not link for fear that you will hold me responsible for descreasing your IQ just by reading it, is a classic example of his "style."
Creative Commons is his target. It's taken John almost three years to come to the opinion that it's "eye-rolling dumb."
Wow.
He even went so far as to ask "the critics", and by "critics" we mean Andrew Orlowski (who is himself the John Dvorak of The Register), about how lame CC was. Amazingly enough, Andrew did think CC wasn't that great. Again, wow.
The rest of the article is just as inane and full of misrepresentations of not only CC but Copyright law itself. You would think somebody who makes money off their own copyrighted work would understand a bit more about the system. Apparently not.
He closes with, "Will this nonsense ever end?" John, I ask myself that very question every single time I hear about one of your articles.
"Some rights reserved" versus "All right reserved." It's really not that difficult. Seriously. Even I can understand it.
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