16 Jan
2009
16 Jan
'09
2:44 a.m.
2009/1/15 Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
wikipedia is not software. It is content.
Since we are going to the minute of details, I would say Wikipedia is an encyclopedia or sum of all human knowledge as Jimmy Wales and Eben Moglen refers to it.
"If you want to describe a feeling of comfort and satisfaction, by all means say you are "content", but using it as a noun to describe written and other works of authorship is worth avoiding. That usage adopts a specific attitude towards those works: that they are an interchangeable commodity whose purpose is to fill a box and make money. In effect, it treats the works themselves with disrespect."
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content
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