Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 3/3/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Speaking of people objecting to our current
licensing, check out
[[Talk:Bruce Perens]]. Apparantly he objects to us having an article on
him, because he has issues with the license we are using... oh, and
apparantly we're neither a Free Software project *or* an Open Source
project. Hrm.
I assume you're implying that the paragraph signed "Bruce" (who I now
find out is User:Bruce Perens) is supposed to be Bruce Perens? Is
there any evidence that's actually the case?
"I learn in email that it is indeed Perens. — ciphergoth 19:03, August
21, 2005 (UTC)"
If you want you can contact him at his
debian.org address to confirm
that he made these statements. Or you can ask me to, I'm not fussed
either way.
Because a comment like
"because of the flaws in the license - it is unlawful to host the
wikipedia on a computer running any contemporary operating system"
seems to be pretty far out there.
Doing a quick Google search, I find
http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4921 and
http://www.oetrends.com/news.php?action=view_record&idnum=457
("Wikipedia is an example of a non software incarnation of Open
Source."), which makes me even more skeptical that this person is
indeed Bruce Perens.
Well, you never know. Again, I can contact him to confirm and elaborate
on this if you want...
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