[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

Sat Sep 22 18:39:22 UTC 2007

On 22/09/2007, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think most people in this thread have said important things
> that need to be said, and are clearly insightful as a whole.
>
> This is a point though where I really have to say something.
>
> At this time, with its prominence as a premier web-presense,
> wikipedia *will* not run out of money to run.
>
> We are so well established as top-tier, that even just tickling
> that prominence for drops of ad or adlike revenue would
> pretty much swamp us with more money than the foundation
> has *fundamental* need for, to keep physically running
> indefinitely.
>
> So the matter of the foundation going broke is not even a
> red herring at this point, infact it is so far off the scale that
> common similes fail here.

There are levels of survival that are more acceptable than others.

-- 
geni