[Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia

[Gautam John]

Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating them.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
(handheld)
On Jan 4, 2012 2:16 PM, <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Refer:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
>
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> From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530
> To: wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:
>
> On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <rsrikanth05 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and
> > will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please
> > comment.
>
> Wikipedia relies on three kinds of openness.
>
> 1. The technical openness that makes the platform possible. Mediawiki is
> FOSS.
> 2. The openness of content that makes participatory content creation
> possible. CC-BY-SA is one of the two definitive 'open' licenses.
> 3. The collaboration that is core to Wikipedia is an attribute of most
> FOSS projects.
>
> Wikipedia isn't FOSS but it certainly is FOS, at the very least. And
> it's important to remember that Wikipedia does not and cannot exist in
> a vacuum.
>
> So for the love of Wikipedia, can you guys please stop sniping about
> what is and what is not FOSS.
>
>
> Pointing an old relevant article by Jimmy
>
>
> http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/
>
>
>
> --
> "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and
> 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other
> kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth
>
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