On 12/30/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
I can see us raising a few hundred thousand dollars by
contributions.
I can't see a few million.
I can see contributions supporting 100 servers. I can't see them
supporting 2,000.
I can see a top 20 website supported by contributions. I can't see
one of the top 5.
Small, individual contributions - perhaps not. But there's no reason
why large corporate donations, grants, or endowments couldn't keep us
running indefinitely.
The question becomes whether we'd prefer ads on Wikipedia or
"Wikipedia (sponsored by the Gates Foundation).
Kirill Lokshin