[Foundation-l] Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership

AlisonW wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com
Mon Oct 24 19:28:16 UTC 2005


Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Part of the problem here may be that there are many people who are new
> to the community who might not know me very well.  I think anyone who
> knows me would know the answer to the question "What do we do if some
> donor demands that an article be changed to suit them?"


I've met you, and I believe you.

However this is the subject of a contract ... and contract law doesn't 
permit of personalities that well, indeed the only way it does is 
compensation for breaking the contract (which wouldn't be very 
beneficial to WMF I suspect!)

Alison



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