[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/4/22 Ray Saintonge:
>>>
>>>       
>>> That's not entirely true. Very few people's livelihoods depends on it,
>>> but we do have some paid staff.
>>>       
>> I'm glad to see you took the bait. :-)
>>
>> Does the paid staff exist to support the volunteer project, or is it the
>> other way around?  When essentially volunteer organizations feel obliged
>> to protect the jobs of their paid staff by promoting monopolistic
>> practices they become anti-competitive.  It's difficult to know when the
>> line is crossed.
>>     
>
> Of course it is that way around, no one would question that. If the
> paid staff are no longer required to achieve our goals then they will
> be made redundant, but that doesn't mean those staff aren't dependent
> on their jobs for their livelihoods (hopefully they wouldn't have too
> much difficultly finding new jobs, though).
>   

I am sure that if Larry Sanger is reading this mailing list, you
just made him wince.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen