Jimmy Wales schrieb am 16.10.2006 22:13:
Till Westermayer wrote:
On the "dream" thread: putting
100.000.000 $ as stock in a foundation
will result in 1.000.000 $ or something per year to spend -- why not
use it that way?
Well the point is not an unrestricted gift, though that is fun to think
about too. The point is not political lobbying, though that is fun to
think about too. :-)
The point is: suppose someone wanted to buy $100,000,000 of existing
copyrighted material and set it free. What should it be?
For the visionary minded: combine both, set up a foundation with the
goal to "free" copyrighted material (for wikipedia and others), give
it $ 100,000,000 so it can use $ 1,000,000 every year from now on for
buying copyrights. Of course that's not the same impact as spending $
100M at once, but it would be a far more sustainable approach to
change the way copyright works and do something good for a long time.
Of course, even in this model one has to decide on what to spend the
annual $1M. For a good starting point, I agree with the textbooks
(college, university) idea.
Till
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