-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-07-22 08:15, [email protected] wrote: > Ask Ubuntu is proprietary also, uses Stack Overflow. Ask Fedora > uses Askbot (free software). [0][1]
Regarding Ask Ubuntu and how / when it started, here is a bit of history. At the time I was working at Canonical and tried to influence the decision of such tools towards Shapado. This post summarizes it: http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2010/07/19/an-invitation-to-try-ubuntus-qa-on-shapado-com or http://www.ur1.ca/er4ia Canonical put all its weight behind the non-free solution, but an interesting side effect of this was Debian going for Shapado [3]. The question always remains to me: with such resources (although far from unlimited) and mot importantly, recognition/influence, which do they make such decisions? *shrugs* Shapado never really took off as expected, but there are now many more similar systems that respect your freedom and can be self-hosted. F. > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askbot [1] > http://askbot.org/doc/about.html?highlight=license [2] http://shapado.com/ [3] http://ask.debian.net/ - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://fsf.magicfab.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHvu/YACgkQfUcTXFrypNXSnQCffLqE/JKKoAbDksmjWwEWM03k D7IAoM2sRLtrBFTCW2ZGsA6JHoYtUINC =McVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
