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Why is the profit motive the only "sustainable" motive?
The Bible has not been the IP of anybody, but it seems to have sustained itself just fine for centuries.

And it, too, has suffered its fair share of revisionism. Take Exodus 21:22 for instance. Used to be that the word used was "miscarriage," as in the Revised Standard Version. Even the poetic language of the King James Version, "her fruit depart from her," was understood to mean "miscarriage" (because "to depart" meant to die). Then the Right to Lifers got a hold of it and, realizing that it didn't support their views on abortion, changed the words to read "she gives birth prematurely" (totally ignoring the fact that back in the time of the writing of the Old Testament, a premature birth AND a miscarriage had the same result: a dead fetus).

My point is that just because a book is on paper, doesn't mean it can't be wrong, or inaccurate, or "revised" to tell a different story, or subject to someone's agenda.
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Well  bjbrock | 09/28/05
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I like to think formyself and hope I can  bjbrock | 09/28/05
World doesn't work that way, especially in the sciences  CobraA1 | 09/28/05
Oh Please...  nucrash | 09/28/05
Now to be serious  nucrash | 09/28/05
That is exactly how it works!!!  bjbrock | 09/28/05
Scientific truth is not so flexible  tic swayback | 09/28/05
We can teach those viewpoints  nucrash | 09/28/05
Again,how much time do you have?  tic swayback | 09/28/05
Time for a lesson in FSM  nucrash | 09/28/05
Ah, a fellow Pastafarian  tic swayback | 09/28/05
There is a difference between a Viewpoint and a Fact  Ludovit | 09/28/05
Viewpoints become facts everyday.  bjbrock | 09/28/05
But we don't teach them until they become provable facts  tic swayback | 09/28/05
Only when they are true  CobraA1 | 09/29/05
re: There is a difference between a Viewpoint and a Fact  richdave | 12/08/05
sorry  CobraA1 | 09/29/05
re: sorry  richdave | 12/08/05
Answer Benefacto  Ludovit | 09/28/05
Wikibooks and Quality  dhopp@... | 09/28/05
Why does everything have to be free in cost?  osreinstall | 09/28/05
Why is the profit motive the only "sustainable" motive?  Judas I. | 09/28/05
You have to make money to go on.  osreinstall | 09/28/05
So, the authors of Debian and FreeBSD aren't eating?  Judas I. | 09/28/05
They are, but not on good china.  osreinstall | 09/28/05
All I can say is "Huh?" Don't even understand half of your post.  Judas I. | 09/28/05
Here goes  osreinstall | 09/28/05
osreinstall: Ah! Okay ... better ...  Judas I. | 09/28/05
But, for textbooks, I have to agree with tic.  Judas I. | 09/28/05
I agree with him too mostly.  osreinstall | 09/28/05
Has same problems as wikipedia  CobraA1 | 09/28/05
Free books?  Protector | 09/28/05
Not Free, but reasonable  Otto_Delete | 09/28/05
You are not even close  osreinstall | 09/28/05
Economics  tic swayback | 09/28/05
Interesting concept  tic swayback | 09/28/05

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