[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Risker risker.wp at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 15:04:04 UTC 2011


On 5 September 2011 11:02, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> On 05/09/2011 10:55 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> > As to why no-one is distributing a "filtered" version of Wikipedia, I
> > think that falls more under the general heading of "where are the
> > major third-party reusers that anyone actually cares about?" - the
> > non-existence of a commercial filtered version is less of a surprise
> > when we consider the dearth of commercial packaged versions at all...
>
> You'd think a "safe" version would be a valuable service that many would
> be willing to pay for, given the hordes of people beating down our doors
> demanding just that...
>
> oh, wait.
>
>

They already exist, and have for years.  We call them "mirrors.

Risker/Anne



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