[Foundation-l] Quo vadis, WMF?

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>Anthere wrote:
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>>I appreciate you ask questions Cimon.
>>But, please, please, please, could you make your english a little bit 
>>more accessible for non natives ?
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>More accessible for natives, too... :)
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>I'll summarise/translate (apologies to Cimon if I mangle it):
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>There was a lot of worry in the Old Days about what would happen if the
>Foundation was forced to shut down because of legal action. It was
>thought that the content and community would just be able to move
>somewhere else and restart, and things would carry on almost like normal.
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>Recently, people have become unsure that we could do this anymore, due
>to the large number of changes regarding the involvement of the
>Foundation with the projects.
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If you run away from your problems, you just have the same problems 
somewhere else.
If there are legal issues with content, better to tackle them head on 
rather than run away
from them.     Who would trust content from a community that runs away 
from its
legal obligations anyway?

>For one thing it has become less likely that the Foundation would be
>shut down due to better legal defences, which is good. However we need
>to ask if this is a certainty or not, and decide if being able to
>relocate easily is still important.
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>Also, due to the changes that are happening, it is becoming harder for
>us to relocate; we need to make sure that we can fill in these gaps if
>we did have to restart.
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>So: do we concentrate on making the Foundation immune, and ignore the
>possibility of having to relocate, or do we make sure that everything
>the Foundation does will be portable?
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I have cloned Wikipedia completely, and as near as I can tell, I am the 
first one to
do it so completely.    I have not seen anyone else pull this off yet 
without the Foundations
help.  Again, this talk is all nonsense.  The Foundation is not going away.

Jeff

>Or doesn't it matter?
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