On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:06 AM, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We are secure because of the volunteers, not the
funding. If the
foundation were to disappear, the project could continue. The only
funding actually necessary is for the physical operation of the
project.
While it seems as the the most logical explanation is not correct, actually.
While WMF and other Wikimedia entities are more or less a democratic
organizations, we are competing with capitalist entities. And
capitalist entities exist while they are able to expand. Thus, we
*have to* expand while we are able to do so.