On Friday 16 Jan 2009 8:32:21 am Praveen A wrote:
2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
wikipedia is not an encylopedia. It is not software. It is not FOSS. And do not quote scriptures to bolster your arguments - I am a non-believer.
I stand corrected - wikipedia *is* an enclyclopedia. I had misunderstood this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
Wow ! That was eye opening, that people would just donate lots of money to "content". I hope there are some believers in this group and they would avoid those words mentioned in the scripture.
apparently people *are* donating money to creation and distribution of content. In fact, the biggest challenge before India today is to create and distribute content in all 35 languages.
Well at least now we know wikipedia is off topic, creative commons is off topic,
nobody said wikipedia is off topic or creative commons is offtopic - in suitable context both are on topic.
wikipedia is not encyclopedia
I withdraw that statement
As for quotation from scriptures, an example is this:
During a recent discussion on the Qt license, you vehemently argued for GPL rather than LGPL licensing for Qt and quoted some no-gpl page from the scriptures. When Nokia announced LGPL for Qt, you were jumping for joy and endorsing it - quite possibly there is another page in the scriptures extolling the virtues of LGPL over GPL. Heads you win, tails I lose!