On 8/1/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote:
I'll also say that if you think the donations are
fairly good right now
to keep the server farm going, you ain't seen nothing compared to what a
legal defense fund would be like if the WMF were directly challenged
with a lawsuit based on Wikipedia content. Confiscation of servers
would cause an already huge defense fund to simply hire the best lawyers
on the planet, like former solicitor generals and law school deans that
money simply can't buy.
And just to point out what should be obvious, that would be a terrible
thing. Millions of dollars pouring out of the pockets of Wikipedia
supporters and into the pockets of "the best lawyers on the planet",
would be a bad thing.
Anthony