Please attack the argument on merit. Not the person articulating them.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam (handheld) On Jan 4, 2012 2:16 PM, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:
Refer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem
From: anivar.aravind@gmail.com Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:06:47 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS and Wikipedia
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.orgwrote:
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...
-- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth
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