Heh... we should have a site notice that says "Some people say software patents are bad and say "thankyou poland!", and some people say software patents are good and do not say "thankyou poland!", and some people prefer to abstain from the discussion."
Mark
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:23:15 +0000, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:52:19 +0200, NSK nsk2@wikinerds.org wrote:
On Sunday 16 January 2005 00:04, Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
Saying that sofware patents are bad is a POV.
Not saying that software patents are bad is a POV.
No, saying that software patents *aren't* bad is a POV; not saying either is an *omission*; saying that there are people who believe both is NPOV.
If there were no article stating the case against software patents, *but there was one mentionning their advantages*, that would constitute a POV by omission.
But if not putting something *on the main page* constitutes declaring a POV for one side of the argument (which side?), then we're putting out a lot of points of view right now, because I don't see every debate in the world mentionned on Wikipedia's front page. [I wonder which side of the abortion debate we're supporting by advertising neither the "Right to life" nor the "Right to choose"...]
OK, so this is all a bit pedantic, but given that Wikimedia *isn't* a political advocacy Foundation - and in many ways strives to be the opposite - any exception to its normal neutrality would have to be considered very carefully indeed.
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