On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
My thought was for the Foundation to approach
Amazon regarding carrying
listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this
one does. Such a book approaches fraud.
Agreed. There is no *obligation* for Amazon to distribute netscrapings.
Though
I do agree also that repeated "caveat emptor" messages disseminated as
broadly
as posible (maybe a mantra in interviews given by Foundation actors to
major
media?) may be the most efficacioius and with least of a downsde. People
out
there don't like litigitous whiners.
Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people
more
savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally
got some
dead tree stuff out there with the WMF trademark on them for real.
--
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
I certainly wouldn't want to do something that would shut down production
or discourage sale of books derived from Wikipedia. I can imagine some
pretty cool books.
Yes, suing is a non-starter. Any manner of modification is permissible
under our licenses. The problem is that the negative decision of the
marketplace will affect all material derived from Wikipedia, even
Wikipedia itself.
Fred