Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Some ideas for GNU/Alexandria

[Rob Scott]

It all depends whether the other team are at all
hostile to the fact that rather than joining their
project which we knew was happening, we decided to
start our own.
If its at all in the GNU spirit, they wont be but you
never know.

--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > On 20
Jan 2001, at 11:59, Tom Chance wrote:
> 
> > Oh in terms of articles I agree entirely, but I
> was
> > talking more about how we display & edit the
> articles.
> > We shouldn't both be encyclopedias as there's no
> need
> > to have two open encyclopedias, but an open
> > encyclopedia, and an open "cultural resource"?
> Much
> > better. 
> 
> I disagree, I see no reasons why we shouldn't have
> two 
> encyclopedia. What your arguing is that if Emacs
> exists why Vi, if 
> Pine exists why Mutt ?
> 
> True that in the long term one may fail to the
> other, but what we will 
> gain even in failure will be better then what we
> will loose if we don't 
> try at all.
> 
> Two encyclopedias one aim, two ways of getting
> there, share the 
> data, co-operate. And if sometime in the future we
> find one of them 
> has scalability problems the other one may still be
> able to survive.
> 
> Imran Ghory
> 
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