Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 4/9/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
- Wikipedia remains ad-free
Why is this an important goal? If we put, say, Google ads up on Wikipedia, how would it compromise Wikipedia? They're easy enough to block.
It's not a case of blocking the ads, it's a case of increasing our dependency on a profit-making organisation. Google has done good works but it makes me nervous thinking we may become dependent on corporations for Wikipedia's existence. Corporations are known to threaten the withdrawal of funds as punishment.
Chris