This comment on slashdot isn't ignorant:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172759&cid=14379365
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I've donated to Wikipedia twice in a year. At this point, I've given
probably four times the amount of money that I would for, say,
Encarta. I love Wikipedia, but 1) I don't have a permanent copy of it
on a DVD, like I would for Encarta, and 2) I feel like I'm being
"forced" to buy the latest upgrade of Wikipedia when they set up these
pleas for donations, since the performance of my encyclopedia directly
depends on these fund drives.
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I know there's been a lot of discussion about making a WP 1.0 of
reviewed articles, but what do people think of giving out a DVD of
current text for donations over, say, $50?
This would be whatever's current at a point in time, with no guarantee
about the content accuracy.
I know there'd be some initial hardware cost for a mass burner and
some admin overhead, but I can see the point that donating to a
service is something done a little skeptically.
Thanks,
Jeremy