mboverload wrote:
I'm just not comfortable with leasing period.
I find Wikipedia to be too important to leave in anyone's hands other than
the immediate foundation. A company that leases servers may easily give in
to legal challenges or other backhanded threats. We'd have to have legal
advice about how this would effect the lawsuit situation and consider what
we would be giving up.
Leasing does not necesarily mean going through an existing for-profit
leasing company. Many of them would certainly give cause to your
discomfort. A totally new company established for the purpose of
leasing back the hardware would do just fine. Whatever contractual
arrangements are made could reflect the values of the community and a
break even business plan.
Ec