On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 4 January 2012 13:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
list and off the list. Wikipedia so't wholely reliant on FOSS, and will never be. I don't mean to offend anyone but this is it. Please comment.
Wikipedia relies on three kinds of openness.
- The technical openness that makes the platform possible. Mediawiki is
FOSS. 2. The openness of content that makes participatory content creation possible. CC-BY-SA is one of the two definitive 'open' licenses. 3. The collaboration that is core to Wikipedia is an attribute of most FOSS projects.
Wikipedia isn't FOSS but it certainly is FOS, at the very least. And it's important to remember that Wikipedia does not and cannot exist in a vacuum.
So for the love of Wikipedia, can you guys please stop sniping about what is and what is not FOSS.
Pointing an old relevant article by Jimmy
http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-f...