Hi Richard,
Wintry in Wellington :-( “ that said I wouldn't mind if the Summer got started here in Vancouver. Raining again today. I won't go into the Rugby. For the benefit of friends on the list “ Richard and I are old buddies and its a bit of a tradition for us to compare notes with a tad of passion.
Linking back to Derek's point about velocity and impediments - I firmly believe that closed file formats are an impediment to the work of the freedom culture and while there may be shades of openness “ I don't think there are shades of freedom when speaking about free cultural works. I think the adage that all OERs may be open in terms of access “ they are certainly not all free!
WikiEducator and the Wikimedia Foundation projects (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews etc.) all subscribe to the free cultural works definition. (http://www.freedomdefined.org) and there is a requirement to use free file formats and to make the source available.
I miss our interactions.
Cheers, Wayne
PS - Have you migrated to a Free Software OS yet? In other words are you walking the talk?
richardwyles - June 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Lol - ouch! Yes, I still have Windows on my laptop . . .& justify it by having to test different FOSS in a MS environment, maybe a pathetic excuse but the Catalyst folk tend not to test stuff in IE etc. Vista is so cool . . .not!
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