On Dec 14, 2007 9:13 AM, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene(a)vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
John Lee schreef:
On Dec 13, 2007 9:19 PM,
<joshua.zelinsky(a)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