Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Jimbo Wales wrote:
>The ironic beauty of this is that John calls it a
'socialist nirvana'
>and laments the 'dead ends' he got when he tried to research the
>founder of the site (I can only assume he meant me).
From my viewpoint, it is a fine piece of an
anarcho-socialist nirvana:
everyone contributes what they want and are able to, and everyone shares
the resulting benefits.
Yes, I don't see anything particularly right-wing about Wikimedia.
To be sure, it fits in with right-Libertarian philosophy just fine;
since Jimbo, as owner of the infrastructure, chooses to let us use it,
and Wikimedia, although a collective institution, is entirely voluntary.
That's the great thing about /libertarianism/ of any stripe,
as opposed to the authoritarianism of (say) the GWBush administration;
alternative models can fit into the framework if people want them.
-- Toby