Brion said:
If by "let's get to work" you mean
"let's create a free/open solution",
then great! :)
I'd like to add that an OSS PHP + ImageMagik + Ajax library for image
manipulation would be fantastically useful in a wide range of apps - from
blogs to wikis to CMS.
Just a thought in case anyone reading this wants to fill a void and get some
street cred in the PHP OSS community.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Steve Bennett wrote:
> > Ok, if our two choices are: Picnik or native solution, you (and
> > probably most of us) prefer native solution. If our two choices are
> > Picnik or nothing, I say, let's get to work.
>
If by "let's get to work" you mean
"let's create a free/open solution",
then great! :)
>
> If you mean "let's integrate the proprietary, non-free tool", then I
> have to disagree. Relying on non-free resources to fill in gaps in the
> free resource universe leads to complacency and damages the motivation
> to create a more widely useful free resource.
>
> That goes for software just as much as it goes for encyclopedia articles
> and photographs.
>
> - -- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
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