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.
- d.