Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi Bernard,
I think you should go entirely closed-source, and close yourself up in a bunker without internet. I just thought you may want to hear another opinion.
Domas
Domas, this will come to a different stage. What happened to me was abuse of my positive trust. I assumed the MediaWiki community had high moral standards. Of course there can be a few exceptions.
I really thought "assume good faith" was more then just speech.
On Wikipedia good faith is assumed. If your correct edit of a Wikipage is corrupted by a vandal there is a high developed mechanism to stop this vandal. Only because this mechanism exist the quality of the content is so high.
But for MediaWiki Open Source software it seems to you; if there has been a vandal who abused your trust, accept that. That seems to be normal in your opinion. There is no mechanism to correct this and there is no need for such a mechanism.
Even if moral standards does not have a high value to you. And the world is limited only about making everything Open Source. Even then, do you think it is wise to accept such an abuse? Do you think this will help moving to Open Source?
If Wikipedia should have this attitude, nobody should edit anymore.
But Domas, I am happy you took the effort to reply. All replies together give me a better impression of the MediaWiki community, and its way of thinking.
With regards Bernard