[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Tue Jul 4 02:39:27 UTC 2006

On 7/3/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> The important message I want to give here: this is not an issue of the
> foundation versus the community, but rather about an individual versus
> both the community and the foundation.  We should have been told first,
> there should have been a discussion and some consideration given to a
> number of important factors.

I'm surprised that you would consider it a matter of anyone versus
anyone.  However misguided and ill-considered this may be, there's no
need to polarize the matter and try to set the community against a
presumably well-intentioned person—let's assume good faith.

Austin