Tony Sidaway wrote:
Chad Perrin said:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com> wrote:
Wikipedia material is GFDL. Wikimedia Foundation
can and should employ
whatever fundraising methods it thinks are optimal. Anybody who
doesn't like the methods still gets to use the product on their own
fork. Free as in speech.
What if those ads contain bias toward strict
intellectual property
rights to the exclusion of such efforts as those behind the GFDL?
They're ads. By definition they don't reflect the views and opinions of
Wikimedia Foundation. This should be taken into account during
negotiation, but if the content isn't affected I don't think it's any
concern of mine, particularly since I always block all ads.
Fair enough. The question, then, becomes one of whether the risk of
perception of bias on the part of Wikipedia is a valid barrier to
acceptance of advertising revenue.
--
Chad