[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikipedia Invites Users to Take Part in Open, Collaborative Video Experiment

[Ben McIlwain]

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Brion Vibber wrote:
> Ben McIlwain wrote:
>> It strikes me that there are many *actually* free software projects that
>> are already much closer to being usable for our purposes than Kaltura's
>> product.  Why aren't we working with them instead of Kaltura?
> 
> This isn't a zero-sum game. There's no exclusive arrangement. There's no
> "instead of" at issue.

Nobody ever claimed anything to be zero sum (why'd you bring that up,
anyway?).  But it'd be absurd to deny that WMF has limited resources.
Given our limited funds and manpower, we should be focusing on getting
the best deals with those who already have proven free software products
that we could be using, not some company who might vaguely, at some
point in the future, come up with something usable.

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