Comments on: ccLoss

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:48:25 +0000

Very sad to hear about the loss of Glenn from the CC's, but happy that he is moving forward to something like Google. I had the opportunity to meet Glenn when he spoke a couple of years ago at UNC-Chapel Hill to a group of upcoming library/info science students, thanks in no small part to Paul Jones (of ibiblio.org) pushing to bring him there. This was early in the Creative Commons push, and Glenn was expressive and passionate about what he saw as the future of the CC's.

It will be interesting to see where it goes from here.

By: iProceed

iProceed — Wed, 18 May 2005 16:18:15 +0000

Lawrence, I often read your articles in Wired and visit your blog often. Great work that you do and keep it up. I understand that loss of one person means a lot but I also like to believe that we are replaceable.

By: Peeter P. M�tsk�la

Peeter P. M�tsk�la — Wed, 18 May 2005 06:13:58 +0000

This move might even be good not only for Glenn and Google, but to CC and the free culture movement in general.

Why?

Because by becoming increasingly useful, Google is also becoming increasingly powerful. Knowledge is power. Google is reshaping the internet -- or at least the way we're using the internet -- and more and more paths to the information pass the Google's "gate". Google says they're not evil -- but what if they will eventually be taken over by someone who is? What then, and how to avoid that?

I've been pondering about whether (and when) Google could take the next step -- make their core engine both open-source and P2P (peer-to-peer). If this "gateway to knowledge" were open and everywhere, no single entity, however evil, could possibly gain control over it.

And if Glenn were to succeed spreading the CC message inside Google, we'd all get a chance to live in a better, more informed and less evil world.