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.
BL