On 16/03/2008, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)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.
Ec