[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Mon Jun 1 00:50:29 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> I guess I'm so used to broadband I forgot about the
> existence of dial up for a second! You would need to hand out phones,
> laptops, and network subscriptions, though - that's getting rather
> expensive just to give someone an up-to-date encyclopaedia.


I guess I'm forgetting how cheap labor is in so many parts of the world.
Here in the US we're talking about less than a week's work, but in an Indian
call center we're talking about over a month.


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