Rather than attack the messenger, let's look at what is really happening here. It look like Wikipedia/Wikimedia is being used to promote a start-up. If that is the case, it would be a slippery slope indeed, and certainly not what a project devoted to free culture is all about.
Perhaps it would have been better to wait until they had released the free software before releasing this announcement. What more, I am looking at one of their sample videos now: _http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Image:Darfur-Genocide.jpg_ (http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Image:Darfur-Genocide.jpg)
I am not sure if this is their free software, but I am pretty sure that neither the images nor the music are free content. I had always thought of free culture as a comprehensive package. This simply isn't it.
Danny
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daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Rather than attack the messenger, let's look at what is really happening here. It look like Wikipedia/Wikimedia is being used to promote a start-up. If that is the case, it would be a slippery slope indeed, and certainly not what a project devoted to free culture is all about.
Maybe not so slippery. It's been a long time since the Answers.com deal (i.e. the agreement by the Foundation to promote the Answers.com one-click tool on Wikipedia), and we haven't seen many similar deals since then. Maybe the consistent community backlash at each of these announcements is keeping us away from edge of said slope.
-- Tim Starling
On Jan 17, 2008 11:06 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Rather than attack the messenger, let's look at what is really happening here. It look like Wikipedia/Wikimedia is being used to promote a start-up. If that is the case, it would be a slippery slope indeed, and certainly not what a project devoted to free culture is all about.
Maybe not so slippery. It's been a long time since the Answers.com deal (i.e. the agreement by the Foundation to promote the Answers.com one-click tool on Wikipedia), and we haven't seen many similar deals since then. Maybe the consistent community backlash at each of these announcements is keeping us away from edge of said slope.
Eh.
One click Answers worked out well enough for some people:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=ANSW&a=09&b=18&c=2005&d=09&a... (Anyone know any public sites with intraday data? The intraday graph is really quit amusing. It's amazing how fast the market responds to press releases during the day)
If you beat the "finally going to monetize Wikipedia" drum too often it will lose its luster.
:)
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