Free Software on Android

[Dotan Cohen]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 14:25, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> I looked for a Wikipedia browsing app, and found a nice
> one, but with ads, and of course not open source. What the ****??
> Thousands of people spent millions of hours writing this encyclopedia without
> making a penny, and this schmoe thinks he should make money by showing ads
> on their efforts?
>

The thousands of Wikipedia contributors all publish their work under a
license which allows commercial redistribution. I don't see why you
are angry, the Wikipedia contributors are not (I am one of them).


> Once someone publishes a real free-software app that (in this example)
> browses wikipedia, all the for-money or ad-filled applications will be
> forgotten, just like dozens of "shareware" text editors have gone the
> way of the dodo, but vi and emacs remain to this day.
>

I am considering plucking down a few hundred shekels on a text editor:
http://www.sublimetext.com/

And yes, I am a happy VI user.


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