[Foundation-l] e-gold proposal

Fri Dec 17 14:22:15 UTC 2004

What e-gold article?

Dori wrote:

>>The bottom line, though is the insightful comment by Mav. It is true
>>that simply adding e-gold with the intent of garnering donations from
>>existing e-gold users wouldn't lead to much additional income for the
>>Foundation any time soon. The only way it might ignite something
>>phenomenal would be if combined with actual soft promotion, on the order
>>of an endorsement and some explanation/interpretation. My theory is that
>>many of the people who find the various Wiki resources compelling and
>>valuable are the same type of people who are intrigued by the
>>possibility of a privately issued alternative global currency. My guess,
>>and I have no data to support this (since Mozilla and EFF barely expose
>>their e-gold option, let alone help to explain it), is that some subset
>>of them would be grateful to the foundation for bringing e-gold to their
>>attention in a favorable light and would go out of their way to assure
>>that the Foundation was the beneficiary of their incentive-related
>>revenues, similar to affinity card programs.
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>The Foundation has yet to endorse anything commercial. If it did,
>there are probably plenty of more lucrative deals out there, but it
>would lose a lot of faith in its users. Sorry, but the measly
>*profits* would not be worth the loss of the community IMO. Although
>you're could expand/create the e-gold article as long as you keep it
>NPOV and factual.
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