[-empyre-] Radical Software ++ (X)

[jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

as i posted to empyre awhile back (Subject: RE: [-empyre-] meanings 
of meanings of exchange Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:58:29 -0600) 
criticalartware is deeply [informed/influenced/inspired] by Radical 
Software, the first journal of Video Art which functioned similarly 
(if not always digitally) as an [application/ platform] for 
[software-as-art/art-as-software] theorypraxis.

in relation to copy[right/left] + openness, the following statement 
printed on the  Contents page of every issue:

"Xerox (year/date of publication) All contents of this issue may be 
freely copied for non-commercial use. They may not be copyright or 
reproduced for profit without the specific permission of the authors."

w/this symbol (X) rather than (C).

the first issue of the first volume explained the (X) mark + the 
intentions of Radical Software (in part) as;

"In future issues we plan to continue incorporating reader feedback 
to make this a process rather than a product publication. We 
especially hope to turn the interest and efforts of the second and 
third television generations on college campuses, whose enormous 
energies are often wasted by the traditional university way of 
structuring knowledge, towards the creation of their own alternate 
information centers. (We are of the first television generation 
ourselves.)
To encourage dissemination of the information in Radical Software we 
have created our own symbol of an x within a circle (X). This is a 
Xerox mark, the antithesis of copyright, which means DO copy. (The 
only copyrighted contents in this issue are excerpted from published 
or soon-to-be published books and articles which are already 
copyrighted.)
The individuals and groups listed here are committed to the process 
of expanding television. It is our hope that what is printed here 
will help create exchanges and interconnections necessary to expedite 
this process."

the issues are now wonderfully online as pdfs @ this uri:
http://www.radicalsoftware.org/

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