On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 14:25, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked for a Wikipedia browsing app, and found a nice > one, but with ads, and of course not open source. What the ****?? > Thousands of people spent millions of hours writing this encyclopedia without > making a penny, and this schmoe thinks he should make money by showing ads > on their efforts? >
The thousands of Wikipedia contributors all publish their work under a license which allows commercial redistribution. I don't see why you are angry, the Wikipedia contributors are not (I am one of them). > Once someone publishes a real free-software app that (in this example) > browses wikipedia, all the for-money or ad-filled applications will be > forgotten, just like dozens of "shareware" text editors have gone the > way of the dodo, but vi and emacs remain to this day. > I am considering plucking down a few hundred shekels on a text editor: http://www.sublimetext.com/ And yes, I am a happy VI user. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
