just to make the "broad support" one voice broader, i agree that supporting the ecosystem as sj called is vital. i also like the term "give back" as wikipedia would not be the same without this ecosystem.
rupert
rupert Am 23.09.2014 11:42 schrieb "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
The question is that open software and open knowledge are not so close as open knowledge and open data and open content, for instance.
Maybe I'm misreading the "not so close" part, but just in case:
Free software is a subset of free knowledge, and a very important one for Wikimedia since all our content is digital. Free knowledge run by non-free software is captive, as many open initiatives dismissing this point have learned the hard way. We can't take for granted that free software will be always available and maintained either. This is why we need to take the collaboration with free software initiatives vital to us as seriously as the collaboration with other open knowledge initiatives. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe