On 12 August 2011 13:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case,
is a bad thing, but I
do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the best way to
create competition. As far as I am concerned, the only real competition to
us comes from Chinese projects like Baidu, and not from many Wikipedia-like
forks or not even from Google Knol.
Making it easy to fork keeps us honest. I think we really need good
competitors, and we don't have any.
- d.