BBC suspends net learning project 
Thursday, March 15, 2007, 08:27 AM
Will this Canute action help or hinder foss in learning? Unexpected consequences says yes, the angry programmers are likely to get new jobs, but the anger will simmer and spoil over into being more creative, writing for an appreciative audience, knowing others can use and build on your work without paying royalties and corporate bonuses to chiefs and claques.

The real doom for capitalism is that the power of regulation is being very publicly abused by big business, using underhand methods not mentioned in the BBC piece. Nothing new here, except for the power of the dispossessed. Creative communities do not enjoy slavery. Traditionally they have set about becoming slave masters, owners of a new empire with new evils. The religious which includes the consumerists among us, have a mission to subvert evil empires. Between these two extremes lies the middle road of nudging the empire. Given online power, it is possible that good will emerge. For a while.


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