Jimmy Wales wrote:
p.s. Just to make sure I'm clear on what I find
insulting about the
"revenue streams" question, it isn't the notion that I might someday
make some revenue from wikipedia. It's my dream, in fact, that this
could someday be my fulltime job, an honorable job which I would be
proud to have earned. It's the notion that I'd debase my ideals for
the encyclopedia in the process that I find offensive.
Oddly enough, you've even been one of the more stringent voices against
putting Wikipedia in a position where that might even unintentionally,
as might happen if it were to become financially reliant on large grants
from a particular government or organization (which would then be able
to say "well, you can do what you want, but we don't feel we can
continue to support you if you do [...]").
So really a content-free email, but I think most (all?) of us here
aren't too worried about that possibility.
-Mark