[kwlug disc.] floss fund

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As a counterpoint, wikipedia isn't as clean as many people would think 
on first inspection.  It's got a seedy underbelly that's receiving very 
harsh critisism from many quarters.  And I'm very suspicious about the 
motives over there these days.  The project might be opensource, but 
the  site itself has a tinge of potential commercialism to it IMO.  
That's not bad, unless you're masquerading as a community/opensource 
initiative.

Personally I've had multiple, very negative experiences at wikipedia; 
about 6 months or so ago I went in and reversed any contributions I'd 
ever made there and removed any of my sites that were referenced.  And 
as I noted, there's criticism from many other places.  Here's one 
another mention:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Comments:Wikimedia_fundraiser_highlights_webcomic_community's_frustration_with_Wikipedia_guidelines

There's plenty of others as well for a bit of googling.

g.


Chris Bruner wrote:
> I would like to propose a couple of canditates to the floss fund.
> The first is wikipedia which I (and I'm sure others) use all the time.
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising
>
> The second is not as well known, but I think worthwhile.
> wxwidgets.  It's one of these behind the scenes opensource projects, 
> that I don't think gets much support, but is very useful.
> It is a cross platform widget maker that is in use in several 
> applications. 
> http://www.wxcommunity.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=5 
>
> The donation link is on the main page. http://www.wxwidgets.org/
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