On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stephen Paul Weber
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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