Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 10/16/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Somebody has wasted their life, and all they have
left now is a
big bag of money. Poor souls! And now they want to attach the
name of Wikipedia to a "big donation" in their name, as if this
was something Wikipedia just couldn't do without.
I said nothing about a
donation.
I say we pretend that it was a possible donation and that Lars'
impolitic response on a public list just cost us $100 million and that
we begin to tar and feather him accordingly.
:) Well, no. Lars was just speaking his mind, it is natural. I don't
agree with his tone, but I suspect that he would like it even less
(though I can't be sure) that someone is brainstorming about sustainable
(i.e. business model, i.e. profitable) ways that the culture might be
transformed from proprietary to free.
--Jimbo