<p>Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating them. </p>
<p>Thank you. </p>
<p>Best, </p>
<p>Gautam <br>
(handheld) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2012 2:16 PM, <<a href="mailto:wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com">wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Refer:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem</a><br><br><div><div></div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:anivar.aravind@gmail.com" target="_blank">anivar.aravind@gmail.com</a><br>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530<br>To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia<br><br><br><br>
<div>On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org" target="_blank">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <<a href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and<br>
> will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please<br>
> comment.<br>
<br>
</div>Wikipedia relies on three kinds of openness.<br>
<br>
1. The technical openness that makes the platform possible. Mediawiki is FOSS.<br>
2. The openness of content that makes participatory content creation<br>
possible. CC-BY-SA is one of the two definitive 'open' licenses.<br>
3. The collaboration that is core to Wikipedia is an attribute of most<br>
FOSS projects.<br>
<br>
Wikipedia isn't FOSS but it certainly is FOS, at the very least. And<br>
it's important to remember that Wikipedia does not and cannot exist in<br>
a vacuum.<br>
<br>
So for the love of Wikipedia, can you guys please stop sniping about<br>
what is and what is not FOSS.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Pointing an old relevant article by Jimmy <br><br><a href="http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/" target="_blank">http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/</a><br>
<br><br> </div></div>-- <br>"[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 <br>
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