Jaap van Ganswijk wrote:
No it doesn't: Jimmy and Bomis may host it, but
they don't
own it. Or they should have made it more clearly when I
joined it. I am the author of a site about chips and it's
hosted by about 30 mirror sites. They own not one iota
of the contents of what they mirror. My 'original site'
is hosted on the server of a Dutch internet provider and
it doesn't own any of the copyrights of my site.
If Jimmy thinks he has certain rights I'd really like
to hear about that.
Owning the site and owning the contents are two different things. If he
really got pissed off he could always pull the server's power cord out
of the wall, and nobody could legally force him to put it back in. If
it comes to that, and nobody has kept the data independently backed up
at a physically separate site, then that's the end of it.
Jimmy's royal prerogatives are not about dictatorship or being a control
freak, they're about finance. Until a critical mass of Wikipedians have
shown the capacity to deal with the project's fiscal administration,
it's simply a reality whether we like it or not. Such a state of
affairs obviously includes possible dangers to the project, but so do
other financing models .
Still, this is
a little community, and communities generally need some rules and boundaries to keep
people from feeling put-upon. No one has any inalienable rights here, except the right
(and perhaps the obligation) to leave if they don't like how things are done.
Is your real name perhaps: Eva Perron? Or Eva Braun?
It's my oppinion that any matters of importance like
those of politics, science, economics, philosophy
should not be dicussed with women.
One should never engage in serious discussions
with women anyway. They are not genetically
equiped for it.
Eva Peron was loved by her people. Eva Braun is historically
insignificant. It's unjust to put the blame for her husband's misdeeds
on her.
Comparing Julie to Eva Peron might even be a compliment.
Julie is a Wikipediholic, and we would love the opportunity to drink
with her without Genral Booth's Dutch minions banging bass drums in out
ears.
But well, uhm, we guys, we like fighting, testing each
other out,
we will have to go hunt the next day to get the meat
and we need to be able to rely on each other 100%.
You women only have to dig up roots etc.
I thought that Holland was such a flat country that people didn't live
in caves anymore.