On 5/20/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 5/20/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
You seriously do not understand the inner-workings of this organization. We do not have "millions of dollars" right now, we have enough to get by and probably some more, but we definitely do not have the large amount you are talking about.
I'm sorry if I implied that the WMF currently had "millions of dollars". The fact is I have no idea how much the WMF currently has, as it stopped regular disclosure of this information years ago and hasn't yet resumed doing so.
WMF is regularly disclosing information about the MILLIONS of dollars raised by donations.
Amount raised by donations is only one part of a calculation of how much the foundation currently has.
Any idea how much the cost is to the WMF to add a datafeed client? As I've said, I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Give me a datafeed, at 2x cost, with no restrictions on reselling it. I'll set up a non-profit organization dedicated to distributing the data, and I'll take out a $25,000 personal loan at prosper.com which I'll turn around and reloan to the non-profit at the same interest rate. I'll then set up a server with a MySQL database containing the data and offer shell accounts on the server for $10/month.
Deal?
Anthony