On 29 Nov 2005, at 01:04, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 11/28/05, Anthony DiPierro
<wikilegal(a)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