And did Ward give you permission to publicly admonish Jimbo in his name? Your appeal to authority is weak. A roomful of supposed group-think biased "me-too"s certainly isn't going to change my opinion.
FWIW, I've had the opportunity to speak with both Ward and Jimbo and as far as I can tell they are a team. I'm calling you out on this.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
And how many of those 20+ people actually know him?
Well, one of them is Ward Cunningham, and there are several that have met him several times at wiki conferences. But you don't have to meet the founder of a non-profit personally to know he's doing more harm than good. I don't have to meet Phil Knight to understand the affect he has on Nike.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/03/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Putting the utter stupidity of discussing Jimbo's sex life at all
aside,
I
will say that this episode rings true for me in one important sense.
As
an
employee of a for-profit wiki, I've had the *entire* 20+ person staff
agree
unanimously that they love Wikipedia despite Jimmy Wales, emphasis on
the
"despite". Part of me recognizes that all this hullabaloo is a
product
of
the media's inane focus on the cult of celebrity, but
still...wouldn't
we
just be better off without him? My moral compass swings to a
resounding
Yes.
And how many of those 20+ people actually know him?
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