On 29 Nov 2005, at 01:04, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 11/28/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
You should probably reconsider after realizing that Wikipedia was created by a corporation, I believe one which made most of its money off ads, in fact.
"Bomis is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary businesses are the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal, and the sale of erotic images over the Internet (see also Internet pornography)."
Yep, ads and porn are why Wikipedia exists today. Throws a wrench in that whole "corporations can do nothing but evil" theory.
Slight rewrite of history. Jimbo made his money from options trading and set up Nupedia and Bomis at about the same time as far as I remember (I guess I should check the Wp article). Bomis profits may have funded Wp for a bit (and the corporations were for a while entangled), but I wouldnt say adds and porn funded it directly - the Spanish wp fork was about ads.
Justinc