[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing Wikimedia Foundation

[Sheldon Rampton]

I see that my coinage of "Wikimedia" has become the name of the 
Wikimedia Foundation. Well and good, well and good. Now I'll just 
wait a few years until this thing gets really big, and then I'll sue 
for intellectual property theft, settle out of court for a few 
million bucks, and then retire to my country estate. Heh heh heh... ;)

Seriously, folks...has anyone considered approaching some of the big 
computer companies like Microsoft or Apple, or for that matter the 
Free Software Foundation? I'd think that some of them might have an 
interest in coming up with some funding. For example, Apple is 
primarily in the hardware business and might have an interest in 
encouraging the development of an open source internet platform for 
multimedia that motivates people to go out and buy more iBooks and 
iPods so they can use iMovie and iTunes.
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|  Sheldon Rampton
|  Editor, PR Watch (www.prwatch.org)
|  Author of books including:
|     Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities
|     Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
|     Mad Cow USA
|     Trust Us, We're Experts
|     Weapons of Mass Deception
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