[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 12:32:43 UTC 2011


On 12 August 2011 13:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:

> I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case, is a bad thing, but I
> do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the best way to
> create competition. As far as I am concerned, the only real competition to
> us comes from Chinese projects like Baidu, and not from many Wikipedia-like
> forks or not even from Google Knol.


Making it easy to fork keeps us honest. I think we really need good
competitors, and we don't have any.


- d.



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