On 11/28/05, Mike Finucane mike_finucane@yahoo.com wrote:
postscript. I may contribute some images, I'll have to consider the matter more deeply now. Perhaps some images that no commercial company would want to use; or perhaps a resolution unsuited to commercial useage.
Heh just upload them unser the GFDL. Certian issues with the lisence means that images released under it are pretty much useless for conventional comercial use
I'll continue to contribute information; but the idea that someday some Mogul might squeeze Wikipedia out of existence, and incorporate its assets, just as surely as Netscape was lost to AOL-Time-Warner, will probably have an affect on my desire to help create something new. A world asset which was never saleable to the highest bidder.
GFDL makes sure it can be sold to the highest bidder because there is nothing to stop someone copying what the highest bidder has just bought. I recall that necscape was originaly a comercial company. It's code was released and I belive was the basis on which the monzilla and firefox browsers were built.
-- geni