On 22/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
In making this decision, we assessed five major cities: Boston, London,
If that assessment took more that say 20 seconds we have a problem.
Could you elaborate? Are you saying that it should be, in some way, obvious that London is a bad choice? In what way is that?
As discussed interminably on some other list this very week, British defamation law is voracious and enthusiastic. Having WMF operating in a British jurisdiction, or keeping assets there, is pretty much an invitation for someone to sue us in a UK court - a situation where we might win but we would certainly suffer.
It's home to plenty of like-minded organizations and possible partners, top-tier universities like Stanford and UC Berkeley, world-class support services, and major media.
You want to go near the major media groups?
Why not? You can work with your competition to mutual benefit, you know.
Indeed, they're not our "competition" any more so than, say, a random academic publisher is.
(Incidentally, the real key to this announcement strikes me as not "San Francisco versus New York", but "anywhere but suburban Florida"...)