Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 10/16/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Somebody has wasted their life, and all they have left now is a big bag of money. Poor souls! And now they want to attach the name of Wikipedia to a "big donation" in their name, as if this was something Wikipedia just couldn't do without.
I said nothing about a donation.
I say we pretend that it was a possible donation and that Lars' impolitic response on a public list just cost us $100 million and that we begin to tar and feather him accordingly.
:) Well, no. Lars was just speaking his mind, it is natural. I don't agree with his tone, but I suspect that he would like it even less (though I can't be sure) that someone is brainstorming about sustainable (i.e. business model, i.e. profitable) ways that the culture might be transformed from proprietary to free.
--Jimbo