On 9/24/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
I prefer the FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA approach :)
The whole point, just in case the smiley indicates that it went over your head, is that we can't actually give equal priority to both; we need choose either eliminating non-free content or producing the best encyclopaedia we can.
No, I don't use smilies to mean I'm confused. ;)
I am very familiar with your argument, but reject it. We can give equal priority to both. Things we do should support a "free encyclopedia". Both. If there is something we are thinking about doing that fails either of those, for example becoming a free travel website or becoming a non-free encyclopedia we should reject it. A red ball is both a ball, and red. There is no choosing.
We don't need to choose between our free-content ideology and creating the best encyclopedia we can, rather we should create the best free encyclopedia that we can.