[Foundation-l] Wikinews - not so much a state of the wiki

[Thomas Dalton]

On 04/12/2007, Brad Patrick <bradp.wmf at gmail.com> wrote:
> May I also point out that Mr. Godwin does not exist in his position to
> provide you, Mr. Dalton, with free legal advice.  He advises the Foundation
> alone.  That he deigns to speak to you (on or off-list) is a credit to his
> magnanimous nature, not paying some debt of obligation to you to be nice or
> explain things in such a way that you understand them.

Well that's hardly going to work, is it? Most of the decisions around
here are made by volunteers, not the foundation, so it's the
volunteers that need the legal advice.