Okay, I’ve been thinking about doing this for ages, and Pixton (the comics thing I played with a few posts ago) seemed like the best way of presenting it. @ambrouk ‘s “My story of O(pen)” was a wonderfully positive look at the benefits of open, so here I am drawing both on this slightly one-sided view and her very interesting choice of title to realise that openess is a discipline, and like every discipline it can be both beneficial, enjoyable and very difficult to stick to.
Brian Lamb expressed this rather well with his “frustrating misconceptions” on openness, the fact that people outside of “the lifestyle” have very odd ideas of how it actually works in practice – the things that seem to be the “point” when viewed from the outside are not the day-to-day benefits. And the huge elephant in the room, that Creative Commons is all about making better use of your copyright rather than abandoning it.
Hope the comic is gnomic enough to be interesting without being incomprehensible!
The existence of this post and Amber’s does not mean that there is a secret BDSM fetish scene at our mutual employers. As far as I am aware. All the bits of the comic I own are available under CC-BY, though note that the good folks at Pixton also require attribution and that their property is not used commercially.
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