Fine art and applied art
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| jezuch Oct 09, 2006 3:03 AM EDT |
First of all, open source methodology is not applicable to fine art. Have you seen any bugfixes to "Mona Lisa" recently? "Mona Lisa 2.0"? ;) When an artist finishes his work it's like "Voila!" - it's done! It's perfect! How dare you even think about modifying it!? Software is much like applied art - a chair may be a piece of art, too, but if it's not comfy, it's useless and needs fixing. So chairs can have bugfixes like software. Icons and logos may fit here too, probably. But it's an important distinction, I think. |
| dinotrac Oct 09, 2006 3:23 AM EDT |
You make a great point. I'll take it one step further, because I think it helps to illustrate the difference between art and code. Intellectual property law has long recognized -- more or less -- the ancient notion of an artist's "moral rights" in his work. I find it hard to define the concept,but, to give you an idea, Michealangelo's moral rights in his sculpture of "David" would be violated by the attachment of a fig leaf. The whole notion of artistic expression runs counter to the ideas of FOSS. At the core of FOSS, though not explicitly stated, is the notion that software is just sort of "out there" for the taking. The RMS four freedoms imply that individual creativity has little to do with software, that, instead, software is some kind of common good. You can see this attitude from RMS in nearly any reference he make to Linux or to Linus. |
| jezuch Oct 09, 2006 2:55 PM EDT |
Does "ancient" mean "obsolete"? :) You know, when a piece of art is "perfect", it's "perfect" in the form and shape the artist has given it. Any deviation makes it less perfect. So in a desire to maximize world's perfection any modification is considered a crime ;) I've written a couple of poems, so I think I know how it works... ...and fortunately I don't think that way about software I write :) |
| dinotrac Oct 09, 2006 3:59 PM EDT |
ancient means ancient. |
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