21 comments on T-shirts!
And 6, of which 3 my own, on a thoughtful post on meeting a Benedictine superior that it took two days to write, three to journey to, and several months to organise. Seriously? My editorial strategy is all wrong! 
Obviously I don’t care as much about this stuff as you do, and I have no wish to upset people doing valuable work (even when they don’t have the same compunction about me). As a tribute to the community spirit Vinay mentioned, I’m backing off. No unMonastery fleeces are forthcoming.
However, a word about licenses is in order. A license is not some legal gibberish that a lawyer told you to put on your website. It is a social contract. An open license, says: here’s something I made, come play with it! You are free to do as you wish, you will have essentially the same rights of access as me, its creator, because I trust you, whoever you are, even if I have not met you yet. Its purpose is to draw new people in, not to ensure a stable dominant position of the people already in. We have copyright for that, and it works.
When you suddenly change the social contract, people get hurt. If you don’t change it, but don’t embrace it either, and treat it as some boring detail that the cool kids need not worry about, people are at least wrongfooted and feel cheated.
A social contract is no joke. Where did you, Ola and Ben, get the idea that invoking it was a “businesslike”, “unemotional”, “inappropriate” response, contrary to “the vision”? This stuff is important to a lot of people. To Sam, who generously gave us the first batch of unMonastery videos during LOTE3: he spent a year living his life using only open source tools and techniques, going to considerable inconvenience. To Matthias, who generously built the Edgeryders website and runs it daily, and assembled a 800+ page document containing open resources on everything from learning Spanish to vacuum drying with a microwave oven. To Rysiek, who generously mobilized the Polish hackers to take up the fight against ACTA. To Asta and Amelia, who generously fought the fight in the European Parliament against the copyright lobby. To Simone, who generously co-started OpenStreetMap – without it, unTransit would have been impossible or illegal, because Google and Bing maps are not open. To Piersoft, who works to open building ownership data in Matera as well as mapping his city – and the two lead to a map of unused assets, which can be used by all because – you guessed it – it is open. To Marc, who spent his time in the unMonastery building an open version of something that already exists, the solar tracker, but is closed, and so when it breaks you can’t fix it. It is important to the whole open source and open data movements, both well represented in Edgeryders – we fight for stuff to have certain kinds of licenses and not others, because different licenses encode different worlds.
On this, I do not see myself back off in the foreseeable future. Open is the only way I can even breathe; Edgeryders is going to take open very seriously as long as I am involved in it. Anybody who wants to have a discussion about this in Matera is welcome (not a session, though, not worth it. Just over coffee).