Open Source writing is the only ethical writing. (Score 1)

I am a writer and study English at Princeton. I have been hanging around on slashdot and other internet sites to study the feasibility of Open Source writing.

I am a convert.

I truly believe that Open Source is the only possible future for all forms of intellectual property and creation.

I think that the only moral form of creative writing is that which is free. The publishing houses are the software houses of the writing world, and Penguin and Bertlesman are it's IBM and Microsoft. If writing is to become a truly creative medium on a par with programming, it must cease to be the creation of a single man, and become a chaotic mess, a maelstrom of conflicting ideas united by aim.

Open Source writing already exists in a limited form on newsgroups, but it is breaking out of this ghetto and into the world of the mainstream. The publishing companies are running scared.

I shall become the Stallman of the publishing industry, resolute in support of Free Literature. I urge you all to do the moral thing, and refuse to buy books, which are just monopolies. Books are fascist, for they make writing property and bind it in covers of steel.

Fight for freedom, and we will see a free publishing industry based around the Internet, much like the software world.