Why would we want to distribute hosting? And for that
matter, what's
wrong with advertising, provided it's done as subtly as possible, and
not from various merchants of death ;-) (which I still think is for
Bomis to decide -- I may feel very proprietary about a lot of stuff
here, but I still remember I'm on somebody else's playground. Jimbo et
al. have been very cool about trying to get input, but business
decisions should belong to them)
It's a matter of scaling. Hosting is currently the only bottleneck
in the wikipedia process, other than possible problems in organization
of material. If the popularity of Wikipedia doubles, the hosting needs
to double--with distributed hosting, that would happen automatically.
-tc