On 8/11/06, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
...over my apparantly too-conservative approach to
unfree content or my
understanding of Wikipedia as part of the free culture movement. The comment
was strangely phrased, because it ended with "If you're here to do other things
than make the best possible free encyclopedia..." while the rest of it was
railing against "some la-di-da free culture movement love-in", so I may be
The way I see this is, if your actions have an overall positive impact
on our mission of producing a high quality free encyclopaedia, then
your motivations aren't really relevant to anyone. You can be here as
part of a free culture movement, or you can be here as part of an
insidious plan to educate the world on the joys of stamp collecting,
but as long as your edits advance *our* goals, then who cares?
Also, some people are twats.
Steve