[Foundation-l] thoughts on leakages

Thu Jan 10 18:19:48 UTC 2008

On Jan 10, 2008 1:08 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> There is one thing that the Wikimedia Foundation has lots off. Goodwill.
> Many organisations value goodwill highly and have it as an item on their
> balance sheet..

... mostly because they've acquired other companies at substantial
multiples of their valuations
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)#Modern_meaning],
not due to fruits of initiatives like "don't be evil".