[Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[Oldak Quill]

On 07/03/2008, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/08, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> >  On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:58 AM, <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > 2. Jimmy made one donation, and one donation only, to the Foundation and
> >  > that was in or around June 2003, when the Foundation was formed.It was
> >  > approximately $2,500, deposited to open the first bank account. The exact
> >  > amount  is
> >  > easy to find, since it is the first recorded donation in the books.
> >
> >  Here's a list of the things that Jimmy donated that day. I bolded what I
> >  consider to be the most valuable part of his donation - all work that any
> >  Bomis employee had ever done on the projects.
> >
> >  https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/htdig/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html
>
> There are also the hundreds of unpaid man hours Jimbo has put into the
> project. Not to mention that if he'd retained ownership of Wikipedia,
> he might now be worth an absolute fortune.

I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, but can you point to
anyone on this list who hasn't put hundreds of unpaid man hours into
the project? Also, if any one person had retained ownership of
Wikipedia, it wouldn't be what it is today.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)