I was being a bit facetious because my def. was adapted from ccLearn's mission: "Our mission is to minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials."<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Matthew O. Brimer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mobrimer@gmail.com">mobrimer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Personally, I liked Elizabeth's wording a lot better:<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><i>we promote the ability to share, access, and rework culture and knowledge, along with an environment of technological freedom that supports it. </i><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Barriers only get in the way -- we have ideas/visions/goals above and beyond simply minimizing or "bulldozing" anything. The above takes a proactive, positive, and strong approach without focusing on any negativity or inferiority at all.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>—MOB</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Ryan Prior wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Elizabeth Stark<<a href="mailto:emstark@gmail.com" target="_blank">emstark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">hmm, i prefer a more proactive approach, and less of a reactive one (i.e.<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">minimizing barriers)...<br></blockquote><br>The pro-active approach to minimizing barriers would be bulldozing them, right?<br><br>"Students for Free Culture is a bulldozer on the path of legal and<br>
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