2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>: > wikipedia is not software. It is content.
Since we are going to the minute of details, I would say Wikipedia is an encyclopedia or sum of all human knowledge as Jimmy Wales and Eben Moglen refers to it. "If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are "content", but using it as a noun to describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding. That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it treats the works themselves with disrespect." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
