Cool foward. Thanks Danny :) Commenting on message

On 10/15/06, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org, commons-l@wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:27:41 -0400 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be purchased and freed.

Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?

Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific, be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.

Copyright property of translations of classical texts that don't have yet a public domain/free use version, copyright property of best selling books to allow development of paralel universes and fan-fictions to everyone, copyright property for a high quality dictionary (monolingual/bilingual) and copyright property of Scansoft OminiPage to release it under GPL and port do Unix/Linux OS may be a good start point =D

I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a

position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.

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