[Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/8/25 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/8/25 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> >> > More importantly, please review the questions and answers page about
> the
> >> grant.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Omidyar_Network_Grant_August_2009QA
> >>
> >> How can you have a Q&A on a topic like this that doesn't even address
> >> the matter than you have sold a seat on the board?
> >
> >
> > I notice it doesn't address the matter that they have stopped beating
> their
> > wives, either.
>
> Someone gives $2m to the WMF and gets a seat on the board on the same
> day. I think I can conclude, beyond reasonable doubt, that those are
> not unrelated events.


Occurring on the same day may imply "related" but it does not, beyond a
reasonable doubt, equal "sold".  If it did, we'd have a whole lot more
prostitution convictions.