[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

Thu Oct 23 13:35:32 UTC 2008

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, I really think that we would come into a dead end if we
> insist that every ~300 pages book has to print 100 (or 1000) more
> pages of contributors. It is not a questionable issue, it is just a
> matter of time: it is, maybe, true even today, it could be no true for
> the next 5 years, but it will become our reality for sure.
>

No, it really isn't possible.  For a 300 page book to require 100 pages of
authors, each author could only have contributed 3 times as many characters
as their user name.  Unless you're going to count vandals or
vandal-reverters as authors, it just isn't going to happen.

Anthony