I had no idea that usurping an open source project was as easy as not providing full history back-ups and image dumps. And here I was trying to replace all the board members with proxies from Wikia! What a waste of time ;)
Ryan Kaldari On 9/8/10 2:15 PM, Jamie Morken wrote: > Hi, > > I was involved in an open source project that was usurped by one of the main > developers for the sole reason of making money, and that project continues > now to take advantage of the community to increase the profit of that > developer. I never would have thought such a thing was possible until I saw > that happen. If that developer wasn't acting greedy, there would now be open > source hardware for radio transceivers of all types, but instead there is > only open source software for radio of all types. I find it a shame, and > when I was working on that project I could *feel* it being usurped! I > unfortunately may be paranoid as I feel the same thing here with the > wikimedia foundation usurping wikipedia. If you don't believe me, just > consider that it is a very gradual process, like getting people used to not > being able to download image dumps anymore, and ignoring ALL requests to > restore this functionality. Also failing to provide full history backups of > the flagship wiki. These two facts allow the wikimedia foundation to > maintain the control of intellectual property that wasn't created by the > people. If you want the wikimedia foundation to respect you as volunteers, > you will have to DEMAND respect by making sure that they never usurp the > project. I think the best way to do this is to make sure we can all download > up to date full history with images wikipedia's so a fork at any time is > possible. Sure it may be paranoid, but trust me it is worth it to be > paranoid regarding a project as important as wikipedia. I have been in > situations like this before, I wish I had acted before even if I was wrong! > I wouldn't even be speaking now except for reading the heart-felt words of > volunteers in this thread that are unhappy with how the wikimedia foundation > is running. We need to organize to get wikimedia foundation to release > images tarballs, they are only ignoring multiple requests to do so, so far. > > cheers, > Jamie > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
