<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Mark Just to clarify I said "Surely using an (sic!) FOSS system would be more appropriate for a Linux Q&A site?". I did not say that FOSS must be used... Cheers <div> </div>-- Tony Scott <a target="_blank" href="http://tonyscott.org.uk">http://tonyscott.org.uk</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/tonys">http://twitter.com/tonys</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://uk.wordcamp.org">http://uk.wordcamp.org</a><div> </div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Mark Harrison <Mark@ascentium.co.uk> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thu, 18 November, 2010 11:31:57 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:56:46 +0000 (GMT) <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> From: Tony Scott <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:tonys@tonyscott.org.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:tonys@tonyscott.org.uk">tonys@tonyscott.org.uk</a>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:726420.10698.qm@web29514.mail.ird.yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:726420.10698.qm@web29514.mail.ird.yahoo.com">726420.10698.qm@web29514.mail.ird.yahoo.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Daniel Putting aside whether (yet) another such site is needed (as Alan has already commented), could I just point out the PHP script is not free - it appears to be propriety code that requires payment <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.answerscript.com/order.html">http://www.answerscript.com/order.html</a> There are plenty of open source systems that could do this sort of job, including WordPress <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/">http://wordpress.org/</a> Surely using an FOSS system would be more appropriate for a Linux Q&A site? Cheers </blockquote></div> At the risk of being controversial. Now YOU are the one jumping to conclusions. Specifically, you are assuming that people use Linux because they care about FLOSS principles. While there are, undoubtably, many people who use Linux for that reason... ... there are many others who use Linux because "it's cheap, just works and doesn't get viruses." One of the things that PUTS PEOPLE OFF Linux is the element in the community who preach them them about why they MUST use FLOSS software. To turn to the question of "whether the world needs this": Whether or not there are genuinely 10,000 people a month with Linux problems who could use this site, I have no idea. That's the marvellous thing about freedom on the Internet - anyone can, for a few quid, set up a website of their own. Maybe this one will fail, but if the OpenSource movement has taught us anything, it's taught us that massive duplication of projects is overall a GOOD thing, because the good ideas from one feed into the next. And as for the URL giving the wrong message.... When did the LINUX community turn into the thought police? I thought it was only Apple that worried about things like that! Mark </div></div></blockquote> </div> </body></html>