Jimmy Wales wrote:
wikipedias to abandon the spirit of openness. If they don't like that restriction, then that's fine -- they can do their own non-NPOV and non-open thing. We're better off without them.
While perfectly logical, this kind of argument is funny, considering that their break away was motivated by a perceived commercial or corporate touch of Wikipedia. It seems likely to me that the EL people would set higher standards ("be more picky") than Wikipedia for who they will cooperate with.