On 18 April 2012 18:28, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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). +1 It's not an overriding objective - getting the charity's work done actually has to take precedence - but using open source where feasiblethe is *very much* in line with our goals, and encouraging it advances them. Free content follows directly from free software. So I would suggest that we *try quite hard* to do stuff open source where feasible, with "feasible" being an operational decision. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
