Comments on: Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/ Free knowledge for free minds Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: At what level Open? Walking the walk or being a fanatic? « Lost In Open Source http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1613 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:08:46 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1613 [...] recently re-read an old piece written by @jimmy_wales at http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/, from 2004. In it he states, quite eloquently that by providing information in any format [...]

]]> By: Jamz http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1607 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:58:06 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1607 In a hundred years hardly anyone will know Bill Gates but there will be many statues to Richard Stallman.

]]> By: » Quick Takes http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1603 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:42:28 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1603 [...] Jimmy Wales insists  free knowledge cannot exist without open source software and open standards. [...]

]]> By: David Gerard http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1602 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:07:19 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1602 In the interests of accuracy, it should be noted we have fudged it on occasion, e.g. using Java while it was still on the way to being fully GPL, or using Solaris 10 on the image server *blush* But the principle is kept to.

]]> By: Gabriel Gaston Context Croft http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1601 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:21:53 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1601 Poverty-friendly.

Good policy.

Let us transcend our great poverty of understanding.

]]> By: David Richfield http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1598 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:29:32 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1598 I’d recommend changing the leech analogy: they still have legitimate uses in medicine. Maybe better to refer to the practice of cupping?

]]> By: Ali http://jimmywales.com/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/#comment-1597 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:01:39 +0000 /?p=10#comment-1597 I’d like to meet these people who honestly think that free software is inferior to paid software.

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