[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, Dec 2007)

[Oldak Quill]

On 21/10/2007, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On 10/21/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 21/10/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > > Anyway, for all I know they've already gotten permission.  Who would
> > > > be the one to contact about this?
> > >
> > > No idea. But they don't need permission; they are under no legal or
> > > moral or ethical obligation to ask for it;
> >
> > Wow, I'm rather surprised by that.  Ohwell.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what the problem is here. A book has been
> published about how to contribute to Wikipedia and some are worrying
> about whether we should threaten them for using "Wikipedia" in the
> title?
>
> Such a book could only help Wikipedia. Firefox became too concerned
> with their name and it's usage, and people stopped using it (Debian) -
> who does that help?

Ho hmm. To clarify, by "people stopped using it", I meant people
stopped using the name (not that people stopped using the software).
For Debian (and other hard-FLOSS projects), Firefox's policy on the
usage of their name was too non-free and it needed to be changed (to
ColdWeasel, I believe).

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)