[Foundation-l] PediaPress

[John Vandenberg]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 20:23, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>> I've read Wikimedia's PediaPress press release[1] a few times now and I
>> still can't figure out if PediaPress is a non-profit organization or a
>> for-profit company.
>
> PediaPress is a limited company (GmbH) and seems to be part of
> Brainbot Technologies AG.
> http://brainbot.com/technologien/
> http://brainbot.com/services/wikis/
>
> Brainbot appears to be a spin-off of DFKI (German Research Centre for
> Artificial Intelligence).
> http://www.dfki.de/web/ueber/spin-offs
>
> DFKI's major shareholders include Microsoft, Daimler, Deutsche Telecom.
> http://www.dfki.de/web/ueber/gesellschafter

We are calling it a non-profit ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Research_Centre_for_Artificial_Intelligence

I think de.wp gets it right, calling it a public-private partnership

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Forschungszentrum_f%C3%BCr_K%C3%BCnstliche_Intelligenz

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John Vandenberg