Well, one of them is Ward Cunningham, and there are several that have met
him several times at wiki conferences. But you don't have to meet the
founder of a non-profit personally to know he's doing more harm than good. I
don't have to meet Phil Knight to understand the affect he has on Nike.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 04/03/2008, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Putting the utter stupidity of discussing
Jimbo's sex life at all aside,
I
will say that this episode rings true for me in
one important sense. As
an
employee of a for-profit wiki, I've had the
*entire* 20+ person staff
agree
unanimously that they love Wikipedia despite
Jimmy Wales, emphasis on
the
"despite". Part of me recognizes that
all this hullabaloo is a product
of
the media's inane focus on the cult of
celebrity, but still...wouldn't
we
just be better off without him? My moral compass
swings to a resounding
Yes.
And how many of those 20+ people actually know him?
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