On 4/10/06, Tim Starling <t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
How many mirrors is enough? 1000? 10,000? 100,000? Eventually I imagine
the market will become
saturated, when a new mirror can't recover its minimal startup costs, even
with the most aggressive
SEO techniques. What will the Internet look like then? Will the average
user be able to find
independent information in the search engines, which didn't come from
Wikpedia?
I guess that within this theoretical framework, you have to decide whether
you're more interested in what's good for the internet or what's good for
WMF. Fortunately, that's a false dilemma, as we seem to be getting by just
fine with donations. The only way we would be forced to make such a decision
is if we chose to adopt this idea.
Ryan