On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Steve Bennett<[email protected]> wrote: > Erm, the MediaWiki template language survives because it has a > monopoly. There is no alternative. It doesn't really matter how bad it > is - there is nothing users could switch to.
The word "monopoly" implies unfair business practices such that make an inferior product the exceedingly market-dominant one. Putting aside its basic inapplicability in an open-source context, and the fact that in that context people will make free choices to use a tool, and not to mention participate in that tools' further development.. what is the argument? -Steven _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
