[Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Jun 23 20:10:35 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ok Shakespeare. But in plain english you appear to be saying that
>> corporations are inherently greedy and have a tendency to be evil. Sure,
>> but
>> we expect more out of GOOG. This is not MSFT we are talking about.
>
>
> Of course they're inherently greedy.  That's the whole purpose of a
> for-profit corporation - to make as much money as possible for its
> shareholders.
>

I guess even a non-profit is inherently greedy, it's just greedy for
something other than money.  The WMF is greedy for the spread of free
knowledge.

But this is off-topic.  Let's take it to another list or something.


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