[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

[Dan Rosenthal]

Noein, you keep saying that the community does or does not believe a certain way. To my knowledge there have been no studies of socioeconomic perspectives and policies of community members to support your argument. If there are and I'm mistaken, I'd love to know as that would be very interesting information. 

Dan

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On Nov 20, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Noein <pronoein at gmail.com> wrote:

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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:
>> 
>>> 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".
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
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