[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Gregory Maxwell argues that the Wikimedia Foundation should
> voluntarily submit to the type of openness required of government
> agencies; I suspect this is a fundamental difference of philosophy,
> and relates to why I mentioned "majority shareholder" in my initial
> post. As the Wikimedia community, what level of detailed control are
> we entitled to? We have some of the hallmarks of the role of the
> shareholder but not others, in that legally we have no particular
> rights to the Foundation but practically we control the Board
> composition through elections.
>


Greg raises a very strong point that demolishes your reply. You say
"wikipedia is a business, therefore..." and of course... Wikipedia is not a
bussiness (perhaps you mixed up with wikia?)