Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 3/3/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of people objecting to our current licensing, check out [[Talk:Bruce Perens]]. Apparantly he objects to us having an article on him, because he has issues with the license we are using... oh, and apparantly we're neither a Free Software project *or* an Open Source project. Hrm.
I assume you're implying that the paragraph signed "Bruce" (who I now find out is User:Bruce Perens) is supposed to be Bruce Perens? Is there any evidence that's actually the case?
"I learn in email that it is indeed Perens. — ciphergoth 19:03, August 21, 2005 (UTC)"
If you want you can contact him at his debian.org address to confirm that he made these statements. Or you can ask me to, I'm not fussed either way.
Because a comment like "because of the flaws in the license - it is unlawful to host the wikipedia on a computer running any contemporary operating system" seems to be pretty far out there.
Doing a quick Google search, I find http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4921 and http://www.oetrends.com/news.php?action=view_record&idnum=457 ("Wikipedia is an example of a non software incarnation of Open Source."), which makes me even more skeptical that this person is indeed Bruce Perens.
Well, you never know. Again, I can contact him to confirm and elaborate on this if you want...