Brion said:
If by "let's get to work" you mean "let's create a free/open solution", then great! :)
I'd like to add that an OSS PHP + ImageMagik + Ajax library for image manipulation would be fantastically useful in a wide range of apps - from blogs to wikis to CMS.
Just a thought in case anyone reading this wants to fill a void and get some street cred in the PHP OSS community.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 8/14/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Steve Bennett wrote:
Ok, if our two choices are: Picnik or native solution, you (and probably most of us) prefer native solution. If our two choices are Picnik or nothing, I say, let's get to work.
If by "let's get to work" you mean "let's create a free/open solution", then great! :)
If you mean "let's integrate the proprietary, non-free tool", then I have to disagree. Relying on non-free resources to fill in gaps in the free resource universe leads to complacency and damages the motivation to create a more widely useful free resource.
That goes for software just as much as it goes for encyclopedia articles and photographs.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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