[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Nathan]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Gregory Maxwell argues that the Wikimedia Foundation should
>> voluntarily submit to the type of openness required of government
>> agencies; I suspect this is a fundamental difference of philosophy,
>> and relates to why I mentioned "majority shareholder" in my initial
>> post. As the Wikimedia community, what level of detailed control are
>> we entitled to? We have some of the hallmarks of the role of the
>> shareholder but not others, in that legally we have no particular
>> rights to the Foundation but practically we control the Board
>> composition through elections.
>>
>
>
> Greg raises a very strong point that demolishes your reply. You say
> "wikipedia is a business, therefore..." and of course... Wikipedia is not a
> bussiness (perhaps you mixed up with wikia?)
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I'll stipulate that "corporation" is a more accurate term. I don't see
how the semantic difference impacts my reply. But thanks for making
sure I wasn't confusing the various entities.

Nathan