On 18 April 2012 15:10, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 18 April 2012 15:02, Gordon Joly
<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On 17/04/12 23:19, James Farrar wrote:
It's also worth noting that promotion of
open-source software is not
an Object of the charity.
The "ethos" of open source goes with open
knowledge and open formats in my
mind.
I think James has a good point. See
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Publications/cc10.aspx#h1
Esp. the charity "is independent and recognises that it exists to pursue
its own purposes and not to carry out the policies or directions of any
other body."
Yes, it is a good point. We shouldn't be making ideological decisions
unless they do actually further our objects. I think we can justify
our policy of using FOSS whenever there isn't a strong reason not to,
though, since supporting FOSS has knock-on benefits for open knowledge
(more relevant is open formats rather than open source, but in reality
they are closely linked - even when closed source software uses open
formats they tend not to do it quite as openly as we would like).