[Foundation-l] iPhone App

Husky huskyr at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 19:45:30 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Judson Dunn <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
>  Here's a crazy what if. What if we make it open source, but charge
>  something small for it, like $1-$5, and have that donated to the
>  foundation, or to Mediawiki development? I don't think this would play
>  very badly at all on the web PR-wise, if it was cheap enough, people
>  would feel good about paying.
In my opinion access to Wikipedia in any way should always be free,
and donations are very welcome, but not required to view any content.
Sending the message that you would have to 'pay for Wikipedia' (even
if it is only for the iPhone application) wouldn't be very good
PR-wise too.

-- Hay / Husky



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