On 11/03/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
There's a fifth reason: our employment of fair use material depends to a certain extent on our non-profit status.
It's ridiculous to say "Wikipedia can only ever be run by a non-profit because we need to rip off other people's work."
We're a free encyclopedia. We have little need of non-free content, and with a proper revenue stream we could actually afford to pay royalties on some very high quality versions of images that we do need.