[Foundation-l] Knol, a year later

[Mike Godwin]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The risk is that something will come about which doesn't share the
> bulk of our mission (i.e. isn't free content) but which is a
> sufficient replacement for the bulk of the readership.


Greg frames one of my concerns quite eloquently here.

>
> Wikipedia could be replaced by something which was greatly inferior
> based on many metrics which we, collectively, consider important but
> which was superior in other ways (better marketed; less likely to
> randomly display penises on inappropriate articles; etc).


And here too.


--Mike