[Foundation-l] Buy Wikipedia?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 00:15:58 UTC 2007


> The problem is that it is a nonsense if you read it literary. However,
> it is *not* a nonsense if you are reading this in the sense of buying
> Wikipedia content (which is a common sense of, for example, "buy
> Wikipedia"; cf. "buy Linux"). At least, Google should exclude
> Wikipedia from its common commercial add ons: "buy Wikipedia", "trade
> Wikipedia" and similar. Anyone who wants to make money on
> Wikipedia(tm) should pay for (tm) at least in USA.

Is anyone making money of it? Do you have to pay to be on the "Buy
XYZ" results? And do any of the results actually sell anything to do
with Wikipedia, or look like they do?



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