[Foundation-l] The end of donations

[stevertigo]

geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope. Many charities of various sizes rely on year to year donations.
> Financial self-sufficiency is mostly limited to various internet
> projects that manage to replace donations with ads and merchandise.

Keep in mind Geni, that Wikipedia is not so much an "internet project"
as it is an encyclopedia - the most important general information
resource on the planet - if not yet the most accurate and substantive.

The internet is just the recently-developed efficient content delivery
system - just as the wiki software is just an interface to manage the
databased content. The project transcends both wiki and internet -
which are just the tools that make it work.

- Stevertigo