On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:48:27AM +0100, Bjorn Lindqvist wrote:
Well, I don't really see it as so much of a race. Sure, we'd like people to turn to us for information, but as I see it we're just going to so completely dominate everyone with our information that there really is no competition. Already most people I know IRL turn to
How about I fork Wikipedia. And while you suckas scramble to try to get permission from the probably dead photographer who took the Che Guevara-face photo MY fork has more pictures than playboy. Would your friends still prefer Wikipedia??
I want the images. Those who took the images WANT us to use them (provided we reference them). Readers want the images. Mirrors of Wikipedia want the images. The copyright laws are stupid. GFDL is stupid. And the right way to get stupid laws changed is not to obey them.
Be reasonable.
There are people who want to use Wikipedia only online. Lots of them. And they may not care much about non-free images. But there are also people who want to use Wikipedia's content offline - in books, magazines, CDs, etc. Some may even want to print portions of the Wikipedia and sell them.
The problem is - these people can't legally do it if the Wikipedia contains such images.
These people wouldn't be able to use your fork.
Are you able to see the issue now ?
PS. I think that the latter group is far more important than the former.