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

[Anthony]

On 10/21/07, 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.

The problem is that this book isn't free content.

> 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?
>
I'm the only one commenting on that, and I wasn't worrying about it, I
was suggesting it.  Of course, Andrew Gray says it's not a viable plan
anyway.

> Such a book could only help Wikipedia.

If it were free content it'd help Wikipedia even more, though.

> Firefox became too concerned
> with their name and it's usage, and people stopped using it (Debian) -
> who does that help?
>
This has nothing to do with Firefox.