Philip Hunt wrote:
On 06/04/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Wikitrolls and OSI appologists on Wikipedia are planning to merge the
articles on Free Software and Open Source to avoid "nitpicking and
agenda-advancing" despite the obvious absurdity of this.
It isn't obvious to me that this is absurd.
Open Source and Free Software are separate things.
Noah isn't saying there is any problems with Open Source, or people who
support Open Source or anything like that.
What he is stating, perhaps a bit cryptically, is that people who
perhaps spend a little too much time on Wikipedia are trying to merge
the articles on "Open Source Software" and "Free Software".
I think he believes here is that Open Source Software and Free Software
have sufficiently different goals and ideals to merit different
Wikipedia articles as opposed to a combined article.
Therefore he is encouraging people to show their support on the said
Wikipedia discussion page, if they believe the same as him.
It may even be conceived that he could be reaching out to people from
the Open Source Software movement, who don't want their Wikipedia entry
diluted with talk about ethics.
I believe this is the message that Noah is trying to relay, in the
simplest terms possible.
On a personal level, I certainly agree with Noah, and I have seen the
arguments of the people from Wikipedia (representatives of neither the
Free Software Movement *or* the Open Source Software Movement), which
*I* perceive to be totally stupid and without logic.
Anyway, I would encourage one to investigate the situation and then make
an honest decision based on what the arguments are, rather than the
personal opinions of people on this list.
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