On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:18 AM, stevertigo<[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Sorry to offend you. The claim made was that users continued to use the MediaWiki template language because it was "good enough". I say users continue to use it because there is no alternative. If you wanted to make templates in Wikipedia, you'd write them in BrainFuck* if that was the only language available. Steve * With a tip of the hat to David G. I've never written BrainFuck, but I have written a fungeoid interpreter... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
