Hopefully someone will write a proper history of the FLOSS (free/libre/open source software) movement someday. As someone who has sometimes tried to find sources on early 20th century stuff where it seems no-one wrote a history, I certainly hope the FLOSS history doesn't end up the same way.
Carcharoth
PS. But (having had to find out something about swings) at least we have these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_%28seat%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_boarding
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
The [[dwm]] deletion discussion has caught the interest of some of the more nerdy online communities:
- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b8s29/the_wikipedia_deletionist...
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163884
It's interesting to see the general levels of disgust and how few current editors there are in comparison to former, and read the dislike of WP:N.
I certainly hope the usability initiatives bear fruit and entice regular people into becoming editors, because we're burning our bridges among our original techy contributor base.
([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwm (2nd nomination)]] is trending keep, but many FLOSS articles have been deleted lately, and many will yet feel the axe.)
-- gwern
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