[Foundation-l] PediaPress

[SlimVirgin]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 21:20, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
That wouldn't mean that Brainbot or PediaPress were non-profit. They
look like for-profit companies.