2009/7/31 stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com>om>:
It occurs to me that when people donate money to
something, it is to
some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to
eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this
not also the case with Wikimedia and many charitable donations to it?
-Steven
Nope. Many charities of various sizes rely on year to year donations.
Financial self-sufficiency is mostly limited to various internet
projects that manage to replace donations with ads and merchandise.
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geni