Jimmy Wales wrote:
p.s. Just to make sure I'm clear on what I find insulting about the "revenue streams" question, it isn't the notion that I might someday make some revenue from wikipedia. It's my dream, in fact, that this could someday be my fulltime job, an honorable job which I would be proud to have earned. It's the notion that I'd debase my ideals for the encyclopedia in the process that I find offensive.
Oddly enough, you've even been one of the more stringent voices against putting Wikipedia in a position where that might even unintentionally, as might happen if it were to become financially reliant on large grants from a particular government or organization (which would then be able to say "well, you can do what you want, but we don't feel we can continue to support you if you do [...]").
So really a content-free email, but I think most (all?) of us here aren't too worried about that possibility.
-Mark