The Editor wrote: > On 6/1/07, Ben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 5/31/07, The Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just wanted to post a follow up regarding the initial beta >>> release of ZAPwiki. >> Dan, et al. I'm generally a charitable fellow who likes everybody >> to get along. ZAPWiki is the exception to my rule. First, Dan is >> clearly adverting an alternative solution---a rival product. > Dear Dan:
Let's climb a mountain, sit quietly and scan the global information landscape below. PMwiki is all about collaboration. Set the code aside for a minute and look at the value system of what PM is doing and the way he goes at it and the high, positive level of cooperation among both naive users, naive admins and those who have PHP competency and working together... It is "beautiful to behold." Politicians and multi-nationals and many religions (not Hinduism) set up boundaries and square off markets etc. walls are built and lines drawn. Pmwiki is all about going a completely different direction. I know it sounds like I'm overly romanticizing and idealistic, but really, when you brought ZAP into the mix, we had faith you were on board that vision. Some of us believed in you... That's what it's all about... it's not just about PHP this or that. Maybe it's taking the metaphor way too far, but in a world at war projects like PMwiki and others like it, IMHO make a huge difference on the "inner" landscape of the mind of human consciousness. You may have good intentions, which boil down to "aspirations for optimization" which is not a bad goal. But you are missing something more important here on another level: To pull up stakes, and set up another "nation" you "broke the faith." Some of us are really, really naive admins.. I don't know a drop of PHP and we are at the mercy of the recipe writers... and as such are quite vulnerable. We invest in PMwiki absolutely *because* it is based on collaboration, and an open source model that we believe everyone is loyal to. That's the whole point. It's the foundation for getting on board the ship in the first place. And we are talking serious business here: mission critical enterprise documentation. Because we believe, barring comets crashing into the earth, it will still be alive and well 5-10 years from now, exactly because everyone stays on board and works together. (For the very same reason, we use PostGreSQL and not MySQL on our back end of our web server as the latter is not *really* open source...) _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
