[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge:
>>
>>> I wouldn't be too concerned about it either. This is a volunteer project
>>> so, unlike with the folks at EB, nobody's livelihood depends on it.
>>>
>> That's not entirely true. Very few people's livelihoods depends on it,
>> but we do have some paid staff.
>
> I'm glad to see you took the bait. :-)
>
> Does the paid staff exist to support the volunteer project, or is it the
> other way around?  When essentially volunteer organizations feel obliged
> to protect the jobs of their paid staff by promoting monopolistic
> practices they become anti-competitive.  It's difficult to know when the
> line is crossed.

Of course it is that way around, no one would question that. If the
paid staff are no longer required to achieve our goals then they will
be made redundant, but that doesn't mean those staff aren't dependent
on their jobs for their livelihoods (hopefully they wouldn't have too
much difficultly finding new jobs, though).