{"id":1697,"date":"2012-08-10T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2012-08-10T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T08:58:42","slug":"a-poem-to-the-greedy-on-sharing-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/a-poem-to-the-greedy-on-sharing-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem to the greedy on sharing on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Occasionally I resort to rhyme as I did here with inspiration from predlet 2.0<\/a> and here about a game<\/a>. I am by no means an expert in the art, but occasionally a line will hit me and I think, I wonder where this can go. It was really about whether the tree of knowledge is under threat from overt attempts to curb sharing of ideas.
\nI think you have to let your ideas flow, not park them, or they cause a mental traffic jam that might mean the really good ideas never get out.
\nSo here it is.<\/p>\n

A poem to the greedy.<\/strong>
\nby epredator<\/p>\n

So what you’re saying is the Internet is wrong?
\nSharing our ideas really shouldn’t be done?
\nWe should just keep things,
\nLock them away,
\nOnly selling to the highest bidder,
\nThe ones that can pay.<\/p>\n

The only problem being,
\nThe money has all gone!
\nSo all our work here is effectively done?<\/p>\n

There is another way,
\nThat liberates our crafts,
\nShare those ponderings opinions\u00a0and drafts,
\nMake it all open, accessible and free.
\nTake the moral high ground,
\nand on it plant a tree.<\/p>\n

A tree of knowledge,
\nA tree that can grow,
\nA tree that means everybody can know.<\/p>\n

So go be open, go be honest, go be free,
\nWhilst you consider that,
\nI am off to climb that tree.<\/p>\n