On Dec 14, 2007 9:13 AM, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
John Lee schreef:
On Dec 13, 2007 9:19 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
According to the Register, the Foundation's former COO was convicted felon.
This is appalling. Even if only the broad outline of the story is true, this will be a bad PR hit for Wikimedia
Yes.
and Wikipedia.
No. Why do you think that?
Because people associate the foundation with Wikipedia. If they don't donate to the foundation, who will pay for Wikipedia's servers? In the long run, since we are copylefted, we can solve this problem - forking or whatever. But in the short run, it's a heavy and unnecessary price to pay. I hope the foundation can tackle this PR problem to minimise the hit on donations that may arise.
Johnleemk