Other successful Free Projects: Wikipedia
- Web-based encyclopedia
- Transnational, multi-lingual endeavor
- Based on Wiki technology
- Produces useful products
Is well-known for this reason - Grows fast
- Attracts "normal" people
- Attracts knowledgeable people
- Free in the sense of (Doubly) Free Software
- Freedom is pre-condition and result of the process
- Voluntary participation
- Unlimited externally and internally
- Challenge: Quality assurance
- Difference to Free Software: No "technical truth"
Software runs or not
An encyclopedia article always reflects an opinion - Actions are on their way
Result of those actions is of general interest
- Difference to Free Software: No "technical truth"
Wikipedia is a very interesting Free Project