[Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales in the news

[Thomas Dalton]

> 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.

If could have been kept as a for-profit but run as if it were a
non-profit and would probably do almost as well as it has done, and
then once it gets big enough, start milking it for all it's worth.
Some people would have avoided working on it if it wasn't owned by a
registered charity, but probably not many. The content is free
regardless of who owns the site, and I think that's what matters to
most people, as long as someone isn't actively exploiting their work.