Daniel Mayer wrote:
-- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I strongly disagree with that---that may be your goal (and perhaps Jimbo's), but a goal of a lot of people here is to create a Free (as in Freedom) encyclopedia as the primary end. The fact that this increases its availability is quite nice, but the Freedom aspect is not merely a means to the end of increasing availability, but the end itself.
You say that, but then you explain why that is so in terms of increasing use and availability (bringing us back into means-to-an end territory). Also, freedom to use Wikipedia would be pointless if its quality was so bad that nobody would bother.
I'm here to create something that people will find useful. If it ain't useful, then who cares if it is free? Wikipedia's free qualities are very, very important to be sure. But that aspect is only part of the picture.
Usefulness is another one of those subjective terms that varies with the user.
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