[Foundation-l] PediaPress

[Ryan Kaldari]

If I'm the only person who can see this aspersion, I must be the only 
person bothering to read Robert's emails:

* "The problem was that PediaPress offered money, which we didn't."
* "The difference between PediaPress and this other effort is that 
PediaPress came from the top down with money in hand..."

I'm not sure what conclusion you could make from these statements other 
than that PediaPress bought their partnership. I have no interest in 
causing extra drama on Foundation-l (god knows it has plenty), but if 
someone is going to casually imply that the Foundation's favor can be 
bought and sold (without any evidence to that effect), I don't see why 
we should just accept that. I agree there are more important points to 
discuss, so I'm dropping the issue, but I still reserve the right to 
question any spurious accusations in the future.

Ryan Kaldari

On 11/15/10 5:30 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 16 November 2010 01:10, Ryan Kaldari<rkaldari at wikimedia.org>  wrote:
>
>    
>> I'm sure the amount of money the Foundation receives from its cut of
>> actually published books is negligible - probably a few hundred dollars
>> a year. I'm more interested in your insinuation that PediaPress bought
>> their partnership status. Since you managed to avoid answering either of
>> my questions, I'll assume you have no evidence for these aspersions.
>>      
>
> You seem to be making a point of harping on an aspersion that only you
> can see. It's not clear that doing so adds more light than heat.
>
> There is no reason to assume the PediaPress mess is anything more than
> SNAFU and that everyone at Wikimedia is anything other than as sincere
> and honest as we know they are.
>
> *However*, that is orthogonal to whether a privileged private closed
> source partnership is an acceptable arrangement to keep around. And
> the consensus appears to be that this is a question that needs some
> serious thought.
>
>
> - d.
>
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