[Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:32:43 +0100, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 12 August 2011 13:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> 
>> I do agree that the monopoly, at least in this case, is a bad thing,
but
>> I
>> do not see why stimulating creation of the forks would be the best way
to
>> create competition. As far as I am concerned, the only real competition
>> to
>> us comes from Chinese projects like Baidu, and not from many
>> Wikipedia-like
>> forks or not even from Google Knol.
> 
> 
> Making it easy to fork keeps us honest. I think we really need good
> competitors, and we don't have any.
> 
> 

My point is that making it easy to fork does not create good competitors.
Good competitors come from elsewhere. And they will come, if we do not
deploy WISIWIG, not lower the entrance barrier for novices, not make it
harder to troll out respectable users, and not find a way to make
connections to academia or otherwise considerably improve the quality.

Cheers
Yaroslav