[WikiEN-l] Former Wikimedia employee was a felon.

[Thomas Dalton]

> Suing for libel is one of the sillier ideas to come up in this thread.
> If that were to happen Mrs. Doran would have a much stronger right of
> action than WMF.
>
> The most important question about such a lawsuit is, "What would you
> hope to accomplish with it?"  There would be a lot of legal costs to
> bring the matter to court.  Would The Register even be able to cover
> those costs if we won?  And think of the fun that all of Wikipedia's
> detractors would have while all the dirty laundry was being displayed in
> court and in front of the press.  Maybe a court would come out with a
> declaration that we are right; that would still be an expensive declaration.

Forcing The Register into bankruptcy sounds like an accomplishment to me...