David Gerard wrote:
On 16/03/2008, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
It can be *very useful* to be the 800-pound gorilla of free content.
Until someone realises you're an 800-pound gorilla without much money...
That doesn't exactly support any incentive to sue. Poverty has its advantages.
Our 800-pound weight is our very many friends. Wikipedia is *nice*, you know.
We're simultaneously an organisation of less than ten employees and an organisation of tens of thousands of hard-working volunteers. As long as we remember the right one of these to be for any given situation ...
In disputes like this - free content and freedom of information - we can speak softly and ask nicely, because we carry the big stick of a tsunami of pissed-off geeks. Should anyone *really* threaten us. This behooves us to stay nice so people will in fact like us. Do well by doing good.
King Kong and Mighty Joe Young were really very gentle until they had to start interacting with humans.
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