[Wikipedia-l] Shirt / Wikipedia-Logo

Mon Dec 22 01:44:07 UTC 2003

Mav wrote:
> Kurt Jansson wrote:
> >Would it be okay for the foundation to get some money 
> >through cafepress?  
> 
> I don't see why not. We would just have to charge more for each item so
> that the leftover money can go to the foundation. 

I mean, would it be a problem with our non-profit status?

> >If the answer is yes this would also be true for the Amazon 
> >partnership program, right
> 
> Uh oh - the 'A word'. There are a whole bunch of free software and/or 
> anti-corporate zealots around here who hate Amazon and will always hate 
> Amazon because they are a big bad corporation who uses software and
> business practice patents. Sadly that means we cannot partner with them
> unless we want to alienate many in the Wikimedia community and even risk
> mass defections and forks. 

Why do we link to them then? I think it's stupid to provide a link to
Amazon, but not to take the money. 
(Of course we shouldn't advertise for Amazon. The only difference would be
that the URL gets a bit longer.)

And of course we aren't limited to Amazon, I think every big online book
shop has an affiliate program. We could join all of them or at least pick one or
two which have sympathies in the community (in Germany this would be lob.de,
I think).

Kurt

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