2011/2/19 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > On 19 February 2011 10:41, Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Maximising reusability is not the same as maximising usability. > > > This is a nice-sounding phrase, but its meaning is entirely unclear. > > And maximising usability would mean rationalising the list of licenses > anyway. Paralysis of choice is actually bad interface design.
Let us define usability as uploader-friendliness and reusability as downloader-friendliness. If you rationalise eggs requesting them to be in cubic shape, because it fits best your transportation and space requirements, no hen will want to lay eggs any longer. If a grocer wants to maximize not apple reuse, but apple eating, he will lower the prices. But in turn, apple growing farmers will stop from being interested and will find another grocer who offers better prices. In our case, the "another grocer" might be Getty Image who is currently being linked from a number of pages on Flickr. Getty Image offers a better price than Wikimedia Commons, don't you think ? See http://www.flickr.com/help/gettyimages/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
