2009/8/25 Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com:
This sounds rather familiar. Let's see... When was the last time that the Wikimedia Foundation might have been caught red-handed, putting itself into a situation that favored Wikia in a financial manner, using tax-advantaged funds, in a way that was not entirely open to public scrutiny, but was then poo-poohed as insignificant and trivial by those who trust implicitly that Wikia and the Wikimedia Foundation are "entirely separate" and that there couldn't POSSIBLY be any appearances of self-dealing?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-January/049340.html
Oh, yeah, that's it.
How are you feeling about this, now, Mr. Dalton, given that the evidence just seems to keep piling up?
I don't see any evidence of bad faith. I see evidence of people doing deals with those they know well in a manner that is commonplace in business without realising that it isn't appropriate for a charity.