Are you kidding, Fred? It's more like these plazas you see around Manhattan which have a little plate set in the concrete saying that "Easement is revocable at will" or some such -- specifically denying that any "right" was created just because they put up a fountain and trees and a few benches.
Jimbo doesn't have to keep this site going. And WikiMedia CAN suddenly shut it down or go commercial or (shudder) pro-Marxist at any time...
There's no contract. No rights. You and me and mav and thousands of others have only 1 right: the right to fork. But we are all LITERALLY "allowed" to post at Jimbo's whim.
Gradually the committees are putting Jimbo out of the "whim business" so there's a bit of transition going on. But I can shut down the whole thing anytime with 2 mouse-clicks, and I wouldn't be violating your rights in any way.
Firmly (but fondly),
Uncle Ed
You cannot bind others by contract without being bound yourself.
Fred
From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:08:33 -0500 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] You have no rights (was: Going to Court)
There's no contract. No rights. You and me and mav and thousands of others have only 1 right: the right to fork. But we are all LITERALLY "allowed" to post at Jimbo's whim.