On 1/26/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This was a MAJOR news story and it came completely out of the blue. But it is an ongoing problem for Wikipedia - we don't want companies fearful of dealing with us in case they get the sort of bad press this issue got Microsoft and Doug Mahugh. How can we get better at this, quickly?
- d.
Check out this article:
http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2007/01/26/2285485.htm
Apparently Mathias Schindler has been in contact with MS, giving a different line.
For what it's worth, I don't see that Microsoft did anything obviously wrong. At this point, we definitely need a clear and responsive system for coordinating paid editing. We've recognized for a while now that paid editing will happen. It will definitely be in our best interest to set up a system to facilitate it and give a sense of fairness to entities like MS who want to do things above-the-board.
-Sage