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.
Geesh... and people wonder why there are sometimes reservations about making public notices about potential deals.
I wonder how much cooperation we lose because it's obvious to anyone that attempts to work with Wikimedia will often result in community histrionics.