Fw: [WikiEN-l] Wikilists and GDFL

Wed Oct 1 14:51:55 UTC 2003

Ops, sorry,
I realize that this was not posted to the list.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex R." <alex756 at nyc.rr.com>
To: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikilists and GDFL

> 
> From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
> 
> > How is it collaborative, open or free content to allow others to
> > ignore the contributions of our co-contributors?
> > 
> > Part of collaboration in an open content context is the opportunity to
> > discard material that is wrong or not useful.
> > 
> > Fred
> 
> With all due respect Fred, where does it say that? And how can
> you assume that material that is contributed to Wikipedia is wrong
> or not useful? This seems like a dangeous way of looking at the
> kind of collaboration that we are undertaking.  What you 
> are essentially saying is that if someone uses the internet to 
> develop open content that even that process of development can
> be bastardized. I think that is too literal reading of what open content
> means. Even open content has  to have the right to be developed.
> 
> 