What e-gold article?
Dori wrote:
The bottom line, though is the insightful comment by Mav. It is true that simply adding e-gold with the intent of garnering donations from existing e-gold users wouldn't lead to much additional income for the Foundation any time soon. The only way it might ignite something phenomenal would be if combined with actual soft promotion, on the order of an endorsement and some explanation/interpretation. My theory is that many of the people who find the various Wiki resources compelling and valuable are the same type of people who are intrigued by the possibility of a privately issued alternative global currency. My guess, and I have no data to support this (since Mozilla and EFF barely expose their e-gold option, let alone help to explain it), is that some subset of them would be grateful to the foundation for bringing e-gold to their attention in a favorable light and would go out of their way to assure that the Foundation was the beneficiary of their incentive-related revenues, similar to affinity card programs.
The Foundation has yet to endorse anything commercial. If it did, there are probably plenty of more lucrative deals out there, but it would lose a lot of faith in its users. Sorry, but the measly *profits* would not be worth the loss of the community IMO. Although you're could expand/create the e-gold article as long as you keep it NPOV and factual.