[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

Sun Nov 21 05:51:57 UTC 2010

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> On 20/11/2010 23:26, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 21 November 2010 01:27, Noein <pronoein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I hope that you don't feel threatened by novelty. Please don't close
>>> your mind to my ideas just because you've never heard of them. The
>>> Wikipedia idea begins by "Imagine".
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>> You seem to have been presenting your disagreements as if you believed
>> yourself to be making complaints you reasonably expected to be acted
>> upon in this world, rather than presenting a perfect spherical charity
>> of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero as you now seem to be
>> saying you have been.
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> I was used to more respectful manners from you, David.
>
> The changes are possible. I'm humbly checking why they're not already
> happening in Wikipedia.
> The capitalist and corporatist mentalities I'm discovering in the
> oligarchy of the Foundation (without any pejorative meaning in it) are
> not representative, in my opinion, of a general consensus from the
> community.
> - From there I see three paths:
> - - ask for more opinions in the hope I'm wrong
> - - help the Foundation to understand other ways of thinking and to
> engage
> in higher ethics.
> - - alert the community
>
> Since I have better things to do for 2011 than activism, I'd rather try
> the civilized ways of talking and listening.

Please tell us exactly what your philosophy is and what we should do if
we chose to follow it. What would change? If you think a constitution or
charter is needed what would that contain?

Fred Bauder