Jimmy Wales wrote:
But I will not support a foundation using the Wikimedia
name that
might *or might not* send money to the international organization, and
that might serve as a way for some people (not you, I am speaking 30
years in the future) to split the project or use it to make a
lucrative income for themselves without regard to the overall goals of
the international community.
Trademark diluation might be relevant here as well: if the Wikimedia
Foundation owns the Wikimedia and Wikipedia trademarks in the US and EU
(as I assume it will in the future), then we can't really allow another
organization that is legally unrelated to the Foundation to call itself
by those trademarks. I think?
-Mark