Delirium wrote:
I strongly disagree with that---that may be your goal
(and perhaps
Jimbo's), but a goal of a lot of people here is to create a Free (as in
Freedom) encyclopedia as the primary end. The fact that this increases
its availability is quite nice, but the Freedom aspect is not merely a
means to the end of increasing availability, but the end itself.
I don't think these two are in tension. What Mav was talking about is
how we care about the free _encyclopedia_ (emphasizing quality) more
than we care about our crazy open wiki way of making it.
For me
at least, and I suspect at least some number of other people, this is
the *only* end---to produce a completely Free encyclopedia, which
everyone is then free to use as they wish, save that they may not
restrict others' right to do the same with their derived works.
And what Delirium is talking about is how we care about the _free_
encyclopedia (emphasizing gnu-freedom) more than we care about our crazy
open wiki way of making it.
I think everyone in the core community is on board with those two
concepts in a major way. And all of us love the wiki ways, but not at
the expense of those two goals.
(Although, I should add, I think that mainstream media hysteria
notwithstanding, there seems to be no compelling reason to do more than
slowly and carefully seek cautious tweaks to our current model in the
service of constant improvement.)
--Jimbo