On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:22:04 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
But, it was a convenience and a custom, and since there would of course be universal consensus to move forward with a different scheme, there was absolutely no reason to have an episode of civil disobedience to change it. There was no emergency.
Oh, but don't you see? There was! It was a Fair Use picture or something like that and is therefore was inherently an evil heretical tool of the Devil. All of Wikipedia was in most grave peril due to its existance there. We're lucky that the FBI wasn't bursting into the colo even as it was uploaded.
Or something to that effect, I think. Supposedly.