[SLUG] Open Source project invitation

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> Hi John
>
> During the early days of the website it was heavily entrenched with the
> surrealist community and as capitalism/commercialism is the ant-thesis
> of surrealism the site refused to engage in any form of commerce.
> However now the site has broadened a little and the selling of artworks
> has been investigated, but so far has proven to be a little to tricky to
> successfully attempt it.

Wow, I didn't know that. Interesting how wealthy Dali was then.

> Can I ask John, do you believe that the primary purpose of a website is
> to sell things (goods, services etc) or to disseminate information?

I don't believe either, it depends on the goals of the site. I just
expected to be able to purchase artworks from the site and was surprised
when I couldn't, is all. And I didn't see any Stallman-esque text anywhere
saying that selling was against a principle. Hence I raised the question.

I think there's a growing market for original artworks tho.

Cheers
J