Well, I don't agree with any of these sentences, though. At all.
Radicalism in the FLOSS world never got anyone anywhere. It was only
when people started noticing that they can co-exist that they started
considering FLOSS as an option.
And I mean everyone.... but the fanatics.
One can produce good and free photos with either FLOSS or non-FLOSS.
Sometimes people in informatics make it look like that the (licensing
model of the) tools are such an important mean to an end, isn't it?
People are free to choose how they want to do it, either when producing
or consuming. And a prize is always a prize, be it FLOSS or non FLOSS.
I wonder if the prize was a motorcycle, would we discuss if it was open
source?
Adding more prizes is always a good idea, IMO.
Glossary: FLOSS stands for Free and Open (Source) Software
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Em 19-09-2011 09:26, Jean-Frédéric escreveu:
> 2011/9/16 Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org
>
mailto:lodewijk@effeietsanders.org>
>
> Any opinions? I'm positive for now :)
>
>
> I forwarded to the French WLM list and our photograph workrgroup list,
> asking for input. People made several points :
>
> *Although anyone is free to use the software he wishes, FLOSS or not
> FLOSS, and we have no intent to discrimate people who use unfree
> software, actually offering unfree software as prizes is at odds with
> what we are trying to promote with this free photograph contest. It may
> also gain us bad fame with die-hard free activists.
>
> *it is very already very late in the contest (2011-09-19), so adding
> some prizes will not help us having more photos.
>
> *in France at least, as a contest need to be declared, with bylaws and
> everything, it is not sure we could add prizes if we wanted.
>
> --
> Jean-Frédéric
>
>
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