The Dangers of Open Content

gihan_ripper writes "Recently released open movie Elephants Dream found itself in hot water with Catalonians after accidentally using an offensive word instead of 'Català' in the subtitle menu. The cause? Designer Matt Ebb had used Wikipedia to look up the Catalan word for Catalan on a day when the entry had been vandalized. He writes about this experience on the Elephant Dream blog. We may have scoffed at John Seigenthaler over his criticisms of Wikipedia, but it gives us pause for thought when we to heavily on Wikipedia."

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Re:is open content the real problem?

[Argantonio]

I'm Spaniard. The catalans are using racist guerrilla tactics to be independent instead of using democratic ways. Therefore there is no problem at all in not including Catalan language in a DVD or in including it in a wrong way, because each catalan has the right and obligation of knowing it and using it.