On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:06 AM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@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.
Who is WMF competing with?
User attention.