Jimmy Wales wrote:
But I will not support a foundation using the Wikimedia name that might *or might not* send money to the international organization, and that might serve as a way for some people (not you, I am speaking 30 years in the future) to split the project or use it to make a lucrative income for themselves without regard to the overall goals of the international community.
Trademark diluation might be relevant here as well: if the Wikimedia Foundation owns the Wikimedia and Wikipedia trademarks in the US and EU (as I assume it will in the future), then we can't really allow another organization that is legally unrelated to the Foundation to call itself by those trademarks. I think?
-Mark