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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @03:19PM from the unpunishing-good-deeds dept.

destinyland writes "In a new interview Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales acknowledges his debt to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation and discusses his new open source search project. He applauds the way Open Source developers work around their ideological differences, acknowledges that he's an Ayn Rand objectivist who's skeptical of the wisdom of crowds, and blames Slashdot for his grandstanding comment that Wikipedia would bury Encyclopedia Brittanica within five years."

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Article and title don't match... (Score:4, Informative)

by jrockway ( 229604 ) writes: <jon-nospam@jrock.us> on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @03:23PM (#17817816) Homepage Journal

If you're actually looking for open source collaboration tips, take a look at Karl Fogel's (freely-available) book:

http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/index.html [producingoss.com]

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Audio version of the interview (Score:4, Informative)

by destinyland ( 578448 ) writes: on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @03:48PM (#17818156)

There's a little bit more detail and context in the audio of the interview [rusiriusradio.com].

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No, he does not blame Slashdot. (Score:3, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @03:50PM (#17818184)

He doesn't blame Slashdot, he blames himself for writing something on Slashdot to rile up the Slashdotters.

Come on, summarizer! This is the guy from Wikipedia, who discusses the importance of distinguishing a channel from its content just a bit higher up in TFA, for crying out loud. Read the damn thing!

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Re:Ayn Rand? The fan dancer? (Score:3, Informative)

by LGagnon ( 762015 ) writes: on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @07:38PM (#17821582)

You'd be surprised, but neuroscience is disproving Rand's pseudophilosophy:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/23/neuroscience_ of_altr.html [boingboing.net]

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