Geez, well, I was afraid of that. You didn't do any harm,
and I agree totally with the decision to remove it. I certainly
don't want there to be any fights between the two groups, at least
not if we can avoid it!
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I notice that Bryce wikified two articles by Oleg
Izyumenko,
and that Bryce later removed them, at Oleg's request.
What's that all about? I hope he wasn't angry.
He (Oleg) was *extremely* angry. I feel pretty bad about it.
I've deleted his email but his points were essentially that he had
submitted the article to GNUPedia ONLY and demanded it be removed
immediately. I asked if he hadn't intended his article to be released
under the GNU Free Documentation License, and mentioned that GnuPedia
had been renamed GNE.
He replied rather vehemently that I had *ruined* his article, that yes
he did intend for it to be licensed to GNUPedia, but "GNU" did not mean
"Free", and that I was clearly lying about GnuPedia changing to GNE
since it still said GnuPedia on the
gnu.org website.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but I didn't see a point to arguing
(I usually don't) so just got rid of it. Twern't my wish to exacerbate
the already tenuous relationship between these projects, and my
apologies if it causes longer term issues.
He also publically castigated someone who voluntarily created a
translation of the page today, because they hadn't asked first.
On a side note, I am really enjoying the
discussion under
the UnitedStatesHistory thread. I'll post some remarks there
later. :-)
Erk, not me. :-\
Bryce
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