On 18 April 2012 18:28, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, it is a good point. We shouldn't be making
ideological decisions
unless they do actually further our objects. I think we can justify
our policy of using FOSS whenever there isn't a strong reason not to,
though, since supporting FOSS has knock-on benefits for open knowledge
(more relevant is open formats rather than open source, but in reality
they are closely linked - even when closed source software uses open
formats they tend not to do it quite as openly as we would like).
+1
It's not an overriding objective - getting the charity's work done
actually has to take precedence - but using open source where
feasiblethe is *very much* in line with our goals, and encouraging it
advances them. Free content follows directly from free software. So I
would suggest that we *try quite hard* to do stuff open source where
feasible, with "feasible" being an operational decision.
- d.