On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Casey Brown<lists(a)caseybrown.org> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Thomas
Dalton<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that fits the definition of
"sell", others
may disagree but it is semantics and is unimportant.
Is it unimportant? We're discussing how this action is perceived as
having bought a seat, so I'd say that that semantics and
interpretations definitely are important here.
Is any of it?
It doesn't appear that anyone outside of troll-l^wfoundation-l cares.
Even over at Wikipedia review the response has been more along the
lines of "Wow, they suckered Omidyar!".
Much of the discussion here seems to be a concern that someone
platonic community member will be outraged, not that the participants
themselves are more than mildly disappointed. When ENWP changes their
site notice to direct readers to a wikinews smear piece about the
board selling a seat— then we can worry. Until then, this seems like
a lot of pointless lip-flapping.
Cheers.