On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Paul Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody claiming to be Asheesh Laroia wrote: >> Why bother frustrating artists who like sharing with this onus to use or >> promote Free Software? Let principles be principles, not demands against >> pragmatics - so long as in principle we can participate. If some nut >> contributes his original work to Wikipedia using the proprietary package >> Netscape 4, we don't mind, because we know how to inter-operate. > > IMHO, it's not about making anyone use anything, but about asking them > to make free content available in free *formats* (which is always an > option, and rarely hard...) it shouldn't be a "rule" of course, but > where possible it should be done. > > If ho contributes to Wikipedia from Netscape 4 he is contributing > *wikitext* which becomes *XHTML*, both free formats.
And if he uses iMovie? Or Final Cut? Or Adobe Illustrator? Or Flash? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
