Archive talk:Illegal Filesharing

To repeat what I said in the minutes, the wiki is not the right place to hash out fundamental principles. In my opinion, that's better done in real-time, in the conference call or in an online chat. Once we agree on basics, we can hammer out details on the wiki or the mailing list. Mailing lists are not good for reaching agreement on fundamentals, because they tend to polarize the debate, whereas in real time it's easier to reach a consensus. The wiki is not good because the open source method tends to work better on existing works than creating something from scratch, and that's the stage that we are at when we are looking for fundamental principles. Fundamental principles should be found through discussion, real-time discussion to avoid polarization, and the wiki can't do this for us. Please attend the next conference call, let's not start writing this until we have some basic, clear agreement to build upon. -- Nelson 01:05, 18 Apr 2005 (EDT)