[Foundation-l] Fundraising & Networking updates

Wed Jan 9 00:24:59 UTC 2008

> But in many cases, corporations can't just give money to something
> because they believe in it.  They may need something more.  I can easily
> envision Dell (random example, just choose any random hardware vendor)
> wanting to brag that Wikipedia runs on Dell Hardware, and to run
> commercials with me smiling next to some Dell servers saying how great
> they are.  And that would be just fine, I think.

You really think the WMF endorsing a company's product in exchange for
a large donation is "just fine"? What happened to neutrality?