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> The open source movement has shown that there's a third way, and I suspect that that's the way to go. It's fault tolerant: if a group of people are detracting
by acomar 14y ago
> The open source movement has shown that there's a third way, and I suspect that that's the way to go. It's fault tolerant: if a group of people are detracting from its mission, the others can very easily go on and continue as is.
You can't fork funding the way you fork source code though. It's not just more expensive, but fundamentally different.
- pyre 14y agoYou can't fork funding, but I'm thinking that we're talking about forking content. If the Wikimedia Foundation decided to go in a direction people didn't like, it would be possible to fork all of their content and start your own competing wiki (bring your own funding, of course).
- acomar 14y agoOf course, but that does nothing to take power over research away from the likes of Sarah Palin and Todd Akin.