On 4/9/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
That's arguable. You could say that there are many copies of Wikipedia on the Internet, and only one of them is ad-free, that is the one at wikipedia.org. Most readers come to Wikipedia via the search engines, and a large part of the remaining 80% of advertising revenue will go towards spamming those search engines with irrelevant keyword-pumped advertising-laden copies of Wikipedia pages.
Okay, but isn't that the situation we are already in? The only difference is that the people running the advertising-laden copies will have to pay for the privilege of doing so.
Ryan