Our exponentially increasing costs (was Re: [Foundation-l] Re: Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership)

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> You know, those figures would make a lot more sense if they were done on an
> accrual basis rather than a cash basis. As is the figures completely ignore
> the fact that the expected life of the servers is more than a single
> quarter. 

The figures I gave assume that all the hardware we have already bought is still
in operation (which surprisingly is more or less the case). 

> If you're using those cash-basis figures that's another problem with the
> model as well :).

Yet the model has closely predicted increased costs for the last year (yeah, to
an extent this is self-fulfilling, but only so much so)... 

-- mav


		
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