Comments on: Wikimania: Wikipedia and F/OSS – some challenging comparisons http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Open Source And Wikipedia (Or About F/OSS) | iface thoughts http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-587955 Open Source And Wikipedia (Or About F/OSS) | iface thoughts Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:53:31 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=927#comment-587955 [...] Zuckerman has a report on the discussion about What can Wikipedia learn from F/OSS. For some reason, the discussions seems [...] [...] Zuckerman has a report on the discussion about What can Wikipedia learn from F/OSS. For some reason, the discussions seems [...]

]]> By: Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface » Blog Archive » Open Source And Wikipedia (Or About F/OSS) http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-53717 Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface » Blog Archive » Open Source And Wikipedia (Or About F/OSS) Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:58:35 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=927#comment-53717 [...] Ethan Zuckerman has a report on the discussion about What can Wikipedia learn from F/OSS. For some reason, the discussions seems to be more about comparisons between the two. In my opinion, the better way would have been to look at merits of one and try to incorporate in the other - if the aim was to learn from. [...] [...] Ethan Zuckerman has a report on the discussion about What can Wikipedia learn from F/OSS. For some reason, the discussions seems to be more about comparisons between the two. In my opinion, the better way would have been to look at merits of one and try to incorporate in the other – if the aim was to learn from. [...]

]]> By: IPcentral Weblog http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-51589 IPcentral Weblog Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:52:26 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=927#comment-51589 <strong>A Dose of Reality</strong> A report on the recent Wikimania conference has an interesting comment on open source: Siobhan O’Mahony approaches the Wikipedia and F/OSS conversation from a sociology perspective, looking closely at the foundation structure of F/OSS projects. She a... A Dose of Reality

A report on the recent Wikimania conference has an interesting comment on open source: Siobhan O’Mahony approaches the Wikipedia and F/OSS conversation from a sociology perspective, looking closely at the foundation structure of F/OSS projects. She a…

]]> By: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-51571 Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:05:11 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=927#comment-51571 <strong>Open source as metaphor</strong> Ethan Zuckerman provides an extensive report on what seems to have been an extraordinarily illuminating Wikimania panel exploring the differences between the production of open source software and the production of Wikipedia. One thing that becomes cle... Open source as metaphor

Ethan Zuckerman provides an extensive report on what seems to have been an extraordinarily illuminating Wikimania panel exploring the differences between the production of open source software and the production of Wikipedia. One thing that becomes cle…

]]> By: Don Marti http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/05/wikimania-wikipedia-and-foss-some-challenging-comparisons/comment-page-1/#comment-50277 Don Marti Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:43:34 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=927#comment-50277 FSF is still not a membership organization. They're "associate memberships" which eliminates the possible threat of having a bunch of people join and vote to license the FSF's valuable copyrights in a non-FSF way. It's common for environmental organizations to have "supporters" (not members) and of course there's a parallel in Google's two-class stock system. FSF is still not a membership organization. They’re “associate memberships” which eliminates the possible threat of having a bunch of people join and vote to license the FSF’s valuable copyrights in a non-FSF way. It’s common for environmental organizations to have “supporters” (not members) and of course there’s a parallel in Google’s two-class stock system.

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