On Friday 16 Jan 2009 8:32:21 am Praveen A wrote: > 2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>: > > wikipedia is not an encylopedia. It is not software. It is not FOSS. And > > do not quote scriptures to bolster your arguments - I am a non-believer.
I stand corrected - wikipedia *is* an enclyclopedia. I had misunderstood this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not > > Wow ! That was eye opening, that people would just donate lots of > money to "content". I hope there are some believers in this group and > they would avoid those words mentioned in the scripture. apparently people *are* donating money to creation and distribution of content. In fact, the biggest challenge before India today is to create and distribute content in all 35 languages. > > Well at least now we know wikipedia is off topic, creative commons is > off topic, nobody said wikipedia is off topic or creative commons is offtopic - in suitable context both are on topic. > wikipedia is not encyclopedia I withdraw that statement As for quotation from scriptures, an example is this: During a recent discussion on the Qt license, you vehemently argued for GPL rather than LGPL licensing for Qt and quoted some no-gpl page from the scriptures. When Nokia announced LGPL for Qt, you were jumping for joy and endorsing it - quite possibly there is another page in the scriptures extolling the virtues of LGPL over GPL. Heads you win, tails I lose! -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
