[Foundation-l] PediaPress

Sat Nov 13 22:52:32 UTC 2010

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On 13/11/2010 18:10, Michael Snow wrote:
> Let me ask this question. Suppose the Wikimedia Foundation were to buy 
> PediaPress from Brainbot, including whatever intellectual property is 
> associated with its service such as the LaTeX export. If Wikimedia did 
> this and brought the service in-house, assuming the LaTeX export is 
> released as open source, it would probably continue to contract with 
> Lightning Source or some other company to do the actual printing (our 
> competencies are much more on computer and web technology than print 
> publication). Assuming that all of this was possible - and I have no 
> idea what would be a reasonable price for PediaPress, whether Brainbot 
> would sell, or whether that would be an appropriate use of funds in the 
> context of our mission and strategy - would people be okay with the 
> current placement of the service, including continuing to charge people 
> who order printed books?

Maybe I'm not entitled to give my opinion, but here's my vision of what
could be a correct behavior towards the knowledge that we are spreading:
it's as free as we can make it, because we want everyone to have access
to it, and nobody should have a special power nor ownership on it.

So making books and selling them at the price of the cost is okay, the
extreme limit: the sustainable limit. Selling them with profit is not.

Spreading through healthy, citizen, public or free NGO or associations
is "promising". Dealing with for-profit, governmental, financial or
private organisms or corporations is "worsening".

Etc.

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