Delirium 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.
I don't think these two are in tension. What Mav was talking about is how we care about the free _encyclopedia_ (emphasizing quality) more than we care about our crazy open wiki way of making it.
For me at least, and I suspect at least some number of other people, this is the *only* end---to produce a completely Free encyclopedia, which everyone is then free to use as they wish, save that they may not restrict others' right to do the same with their derived works.
And what Delirium is talking about is how we care about the _free_ encyclopedia (emphasizing gnu-freedom) more than we care about our crazy open wiki way of making it.
I think everyone in the core community is on board with those two concepts in a major way. And all of us love the wiki ways, but not at the expense of those two goals.
(Although, I should add, I think that mainstream media hysteria notwithstanding, there seems to be no compelling reason to do more than slowly and carefully seek cautious tweaks to our current model in the service of constant improvement.)
--Jimbo