On 18 April 2012 15:10, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 18 April 2012 15:02, Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@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). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
