On 05-Jun-07, at 8:01 PM, Rony wrote:
steps on the toes of others. License, on the other hand, means doing precisely what one wants without bothering about others, or their feelings.
The reference was to wikipedia. Wiki emerged as a free (as in freedom) alternative to institutionalized control of knowledge.
who is bashing wikipedia? wikipedia itself does not consider itself a primary source of knowledge. If you try to write anything in wikipedia without quoting the primary source, it will be marked as 'unreliable' and liable to be removed. It considers itself as a reference and should be used as such. Quoting wikipedia to prove a point or provide knowledge is plain silly and the guys who run wikipedia will be the first to pounce on you.