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Re: Screenshot Captor: A New Definition for Freeware
de Klaatu 05/18/2006 08:05
On Thu, 18 May 2006 00:57:24 GMT, Helen posted to alt.comp.freeware:
> Klaatu wrote:
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>> The wiki page defines ...
>
> Wiki can be change very easily. It is not a very reliable source for
> anything but a starting point. Why not use one of the age old
> dictionaries that have an element of respectablity? Wiki recently
> went through a big rigamarow about inaccurate information about a
> person. Apparently there was some concern about damage to the
> reputation as a result of of the inaccurate information that was
> 'spread around the world' so to speak. They are mere mortals and
> make errors too, but not a site (at the present anyway) worth much of
> anything except as a starting place for a subject one is truly and
> wholly ignorant of.
While I agree with you for the most part, it was not I who brought up wiki
to begin with. And if you think it's easy to change what's on that page
describing freeware, just try it. You'll have a bunch of OSS zealots
changing it back so fast you're head will spin.
--
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the ... public."
--someone who presumably made a lot of money that way