J. Blustein's Hypertext

Note about ownership of Weblog Kitchen Wiki

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Eastgate is a hypertext publishing company. They are, to my mind, as much members of the hypertext community as anyone else.

Mark Bernstein (Chief Scientist of Eastgate and former keynote speaker at the ACM Hypertext conference) explains that the ownership is to protect the contents of the Wiki from being legally owned by some unfriendly corporation that could otherwise take control of it. In its function as owner I think of Eastgate as a caretaker or steward, certainly not a usurper.

As I see it, the Weblog Kitchen Wiki, like any collaborative web prescence, must be legally owned by one entity or we risk losing it all. The major alternative is to never create anything as a group for fear that we will be denied access to and control of the collaborative creation. However I say that a life lived in fear is a life half-lived.*

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Footnote

* A life lived in fear...

is quoted from Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce.

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