On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:09 +0000, Noah Slater wrote:
| And so this is not, as some people speculated on Facebook, my 50th | birthday party, this is the party to celebrate the libration of | Wikipedia.
I find this sentence quite objectionable, as if the GFDL shackles Wikipedia.
"Shackles" is possibly the wrong word, but certainly Wikipedia had problems with the GFDL from the beginning, viz.: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-June/002336.html
I'm personally not against the GFDL, but I think its use at Wikipedia was misguided at best. It doesn't do that great outside the narrow "manual" focus.
Cheers,
Alex.