On 18/04/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Massive Google rank is a side-effect of our mission, not a goal and it's not something from which we gain any financial advantage. The whole "netiquette" and "built on the backs of" argument is just a thinly-veiled attempt to justify hijacking WP into yet another way to make a buck, as if the Internet didn't have more than enough of those already. Did you consider that maybe so many people link to WP *because* its mission is to be useful rather than profitable?
"We fervently support your campaign to reduce our pagerank to zero. Please stop using Wikipedia. Thanks."
- d.