Freedom (CC_BY_NC flickr:paingouin)

Free, as in free to use, free to contribute, free to distribute. What’s that worth to you? Can you put a price tag on it? What if the “sum of human knowledge” was there for you to just reach out and grab it. Would you pay for that priviledge?

Some people would, anyway. Mindpark and Joakim Jardenberg just did, in donating 25 000 SEK to the Swedish chapter of Wikimedia Foundation.

“It’s substantially less than what we pay to [Swedish commersial encyklopedia] every year, and it’s far less than a months wage would cost us.”

Joakim hopes that more media companies will follow his lead, and expresses that it’s a reasonable amount to secure a free swedish encyklopedia for the future.

I can only agree. So, if you’re not already supporting the Wikimedia Foundation in your country, or globally, please consider it.

Freedom doesn’t have a price tag. There’s noone sending you a bill for using it. But keep in mind that if someone’s to pay for your freedom – it might as well be you.