On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: > If PediaPress's software is open-source the Foundation surely wouldn't > need to buy it. This is what I'm finding confusing, and that's partly > because of my lack of technical knowledge. But as I see it Wikimedia > has developers, paid and unpaid, lots of people who are able to > develop this kind of thing. So it would have made sense to ask some > volunteers to develop it.
Or WMF could have insisted that Pediapress open source the entire toolchain in exchange for giving them access to a nice piece of real estate in the sidebar for, say, a year or something like that (with a contract pending renewal). It is OK to pay people to develop open source software and to insist on openness as part of a contract. If Pediapress said "no", WMF could have kept looking for another partner who was into the deal. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
