[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Brian]

No offense, but I feel like we are talking over each other. You made this
point in your first e-mail, I addressed it in my next, and you continue
making it without addressing my rebuttals. So I'll leave it at that.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> Brian wrote:
> | Instead of being such a great search engine, Wikipedia's search engine
> is
> | essentially a hobby project that is worked on by 1-2 people.
>
> That's how everything here starts, Brian.
>
> Do we give up and abandon it to a secretive, proprietary company which
> will never release their technology to the open world, or do we keep the
> opportunity to let interested parties develop something great in the open?
>
> Since this is Wikimedia, the answer is obvious: open and able to be
> improved is better than closed and beholden.
>
> - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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