[Foundation-l] Offering Wikibooks content for sale

Jimmy Wales jwales at wikia.com
Tue Jul 4 11:34:43 UTC 2006


Austin Hair wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>> The important message I want to give here: this is not an issue of the
>> foundation versus the community, but rather about an individual versus
>> both the community and the foundation.  We should have been told first,
>> there should have been a discussion and some consideration given to a
>> number of important factors.
> 
> I'm surprised that you would consider it a matter of anyone versus
> anyone.  However misguided and ill-considered this may be, there's no
> need to polarize the matter and try to set the community against a
> presumably well-intentioned person—let's assume good faith.

You are right and I am sorry I put it that way.



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