On 11/03/2008, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)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.