Re: [Wikimedia Education] An alarming piece of news: Facebook teamswith opensource???

Hello everyone,   let's not overestimate the risks. Looking on the provided pages, I currently see no mention of students organized to contribute to Wikipedia, nor do I currently see any link with Wikimedia whatsoever. Mozilla community, for example, sure can decide on its own if they want to cooperate with Facebook.   And even if they did include Wikimedia in their plans, restricting such companies from providing us valuable help would make us look like complete ... (add a suitable noun here). :-)   Vojtech   ************************ Vojtěch Dostál Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz &lt;vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz&gt;     ______________________________________________________________ Sorry for the delayed reply, busy day yesterday and another ahead:) Having read all of your comments carefully, I think you're missing my point. Perhaps I didn't stress my main point enough: I understand that profit can be made from non-profit endeavours and that this is not something that should be criticized. What is BEYOND me is the role Facebook has arbitrarily taken on in this case. Facebook is playing the middleman (there's a more "vulgar" expression in Greek that would be more appropriate, for those of you who understand Greek it's "νταβατζής"). I read the project description on the Fcebook page created for the "Open Academy Program". https://www.facebook.com/notes/open-academy/welcome-to-the-open-academy-pro… <https://www.facebook.com/notes/open-academy/welcome-to-the-open-academy-program/216150918554109>. If they're so keen on encouraging students to tackle real-life projects, why don't they offer paid internships? Why are they using Opensource as nothing more than a vehicle for their middleman role? Are Opensource communities like Mozilla so "desparate" to find developers so as to consent to Facebook being the "magic link" between Opensource and the academic community? Asaf Bartov and members of the Greek Wikipedia Community certainly remember the conflicts we had with an EU and state-funded organisation that was trying to do the same with promoting Wikipedia in Greece. And they were not even a commercial enterprise! If we are to be so lax in what we find acceptable in terms of opensource/open-content ethics, the future is certainly not promising, at least not in my eyes... I can only shudder at what we will see (and consent to) next. Mina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Bauder" &lt;fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net&gt; To: "Wikimedia Education" &lt;education(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An alarming piece of news: Facebook teams with opensource??? _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education>