Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Re: Fsuk-manchester Digest, Vol 43, Issue 9

[Simon Ward]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:41:55AM +0000, Anna Morris wrote:

> > Please explain how this is relevant to free software, especially
> > considering that Wikipedia contributors by sheer numbers or maybe just
> > voice power can distort the meaning of free software and remove GNU from
> > any mention of the GNU/Linux operating system, despite objections.

> I thought it was relevant and welcomed the email on the list.

I did answer rather quickly, for:

> > > [Wikipedia] relies on a lot of free software

But it still galls me that one can so brazenly slap free software in the
face in on stroke, then ask free software advocates to support it in
another (and I’m well aware that this is because of multiple Wikipedia
contributors, and not targeted solely at Mark Reynolds).

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall

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