[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

Tue Feb 3 21:01:42 UTC 2009

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap
> and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is
> two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is
> nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in the real
> world. If a proposed solution adds enough overhead, the effect will be that
> it will not be accepted a solution.

Thanks for another practical example of attribution stifling reuse -
too bad if you ever wanted to print something like this:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikimediaMosaicCapture.png

I'd be a lot more accepting of a 'Wikipedia' and/or the Wikipedia logo
printed discretely in the bottom right corner of my poster than one or
more meaningless usernames too.

Sam