[Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[Anthony]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/2008, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>  > Thanks for this, Andrew, I never looked at it that way before. Wikipedia as
>  >  a for-profit enterprise would certainly give someone pause when thinking
>  >  about volunteering to work on it.
>
>  Sure, Wikipedia wouldn't do anywhere near as well if it suddenly went
>  all money grabbing, but it would still bring in an enormous amount of
>  money. Even if it failed completely within a year (which I doubt very
>  much), the income would probably be enough to retire on.
>
I think it's pretty clear that if Wikipedia could be converted to a
for-profit today (without any negative tax consequences), it'd be
worth a lot.

What's much less clear is if Wikipedia had never been converted to a
for-profit in the first place, what its worth would be.