On Dec 14, 2007 3:22 AM, David Gerard dgerard-at-......... |Wikipedia mailing lists (wikitech-l, wikien-l)| <... > wrote:
It's not free content, so that immediately makes it less useful or interesting in our terms.
But that has no bearing on whether it will be a competitor. The regular people reading our articles and linking us to the top search results don't know and don't care about licensing. To them, the "free" in the tagline means "no credit card required". Wikipedia is at the top because of its neutrality and comprehensiveness (and maybe indirectly because of its license; if only because of links from the multitude of mirrors our license spawns).