[Foundation-l] Bridgeman v. Corel worldwide for Wikimedia Commons - yes or no?

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 16/03/2008, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>  >> It can be *very useful* to be the
>>  >>  800-pound gorilla of free content.
>>     
>>  > Until someone realises you're an 800-pound gorilla without much money...
>>     
>> That doesn't exactly support any incentive to sue.  Poverty has its
>>  advantages.
>>     
> Our 800-pound weight is our very many friends. Wikipedia is *nice*, you know.
>
> We're simultaneously an organisation of less than ten employees and an
> organisation of tens of thousands of hard-working volunteers. As long
> as we remember the right one of these to be for any given situation
> ...
>
> In disputes like this - free content and freedom of information - we
> can speak softly and ask nicely, because we carry the big stick of a
> tsunami of pissed-off geeks. Should anyone *really* threaten us. This
> behooves us to stay nice so people will in fact like us. Do well by
> doing good.
King Kong and Mighty Joe Young were really very gentle until they had to 
start interacting with humans.

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