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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by mschuster91 on Monday January 04, 2016 @06:00PM (#10839431)
Wikipedia's mission is NOT about usability, but to provide an encyclopedia that can be used, edited, forked, reproduced EVERYWHERE without anyone having to fear lawyer attacks.

It's not a "free as in free beer" encyclopedia, it's a "free as in truly free" encyclopedia.

(Yes I know that this is only valid for the text content, images (e.g. logos) and screenshots are not free but used under different legal regimes in different countries)

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by sangnoir on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:03AM (#10842387)
> Wikipedia's mission is NOT about usability, but to provide an encyclopedia that can be used, edited, forked, reproduced EVERYWHERE without anyone having to fear lawyer attacks.

To that, I say [citation needed]. Where in their mission statement do they state this particular stance on lawyer attacks?

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by karmakaze on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:04PM (#10839860)
With all the fundraising activity, it should be about usability and put some aside for those instances.
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