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On 20/11/2010 09:37, Craig Franklin wrote:
I don't know any of these people personally, but $128k a year for a legal expert of Mike Godwin's stature and experience sounds like a bargain, not an unreasonable expense. Given that WMF needs competent legal representation, and given that the WMF is not exactly flush with cash, we should be thanking Mike for essentially taking a pay cut compared to what he could probably have made in the for-profit sector.
Also, at page 7, three major compensations are described: Sue Gardner was compensated 175050$ (equivalent to a monthly 14587$
income)
Veronique Kessler was compensated 121859$ (equivalent to a monthly 10155$ income) Mike Godwin was compensated 128139$ (equivalent to a monthly 10678$ income).
Thank you everybody for explaining your views. Most of the US inhabitants who answered me seem to be living and believing in a hierarchical and competitive world where the highest ranked ones- who are praised as gods - take from the lowest ones - who are just good enough to give their money and effort. As a matter of fact, their society seems organized to maximize money and it is echoed in their opinion about how to manage this huge collaborative effort about knowledge called Wikipedia.
This conditioned acceptance - conditioned in the sense that it seems natural and the only imaginable solution - reflects a strong, current, ubiquitous, western, capitalist, materialist and proprietary cultural bias.
The alternatives are infinite, though. I would like to know what you think of complementarity, creativity, liberty, conviviality, sharing, and optimizing (instead of maximizing) for example. Are they completely out of your scope, out of your hopes and wishes?
My understanding of the Social Contract of Debian that Milos mentioned [1] is not as a legal policies but as ethical policies. I don't feel it has been properly discussed yet.
[1]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract