On 18/04/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)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.