Again, that's beside my point. There's a huge distance between companies
using/benefiting from opensource, and the same companies coming out and
saying more or less "The Opensource Community meets the Academic Community.
Brought to you by Facebook".
(Replace "Opensource" above with Open-content to describe Wikimedia, and
"Facebook" with the multinational for-profit organisation of your choice.
There you have it: an emerging trend.)
If we're to be so elastic about who can usurp the labour put in by hours of
work from dedicated volunteers by simply branding a publicity campaign, I
see no reason why we "open" folks are so adamant about not having ads on the
sites we love to contribute to. Which brings to mind my initial thought when
I saw the news article: Facebook can't pry into the huge and promising open
community by simply adding e.g. an ad on the sidebar of the Mozilla homepage
or a "like/share" button at the bottom of each Wikipedia article. Looks like
they found the way to pry in...
But I'll leave you all alone, it seems I'm the only one so alarmed and
disturbed by this issue.
Mina
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Salsman" <jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Education" <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] An alarming piece of news: Facebook
teamswith opensource???
Fernando is completely correct that we should be
trying to do more to
encourage companies using and otherwise benefiting from open source
software to support and adopt the GNU Affero General Public License.
I'm sorry I neglected that important point in my earlier comments.
Best regards,
James Salsman
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