[WikiEN-l] HD DVD key mess - OFFICE/Foundation?

[Florence Devouard]

Phil Sandifer wrote:
> 
> On May 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Anthony wrote:
> 
>> Can an employee of the foundation please speak up and clarify whether
>> or not we are allowed to publish this key?
> 
> Please don't do this, employee of the Foundation.
> 
> David is pretty much right here - the issue right now isn't legality,  
> it's notability. We're not a newspaper. Wait a month, see how this  
> plays out, and then we can write the right article. Any article  
> written right now isn't an encyclopedia article, it's a piece of  
> Internet activism about the right to publish the string "09 F9 11 02  
> 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0." Which, as that last sentence  
> demonstrates, I'm all for.
> 
> But Wikipedia isn't the place to do that now.
> 
> If the Foundation steps in, the message becomes "the issue here is a  
> legal one," and an important editorial judgment is erased.
> 
> -Phil

Agreed :-)

ant