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.
- d.