[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

[Milos Rancic]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 00:51, David Levy <lifeisunfair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Milos Rancic wrote:
>
>> Note that more than 50% of money comes from US and that it could be
>> easily assumed that at least 10% of ~$10M given by US citizens and
>> corporations want to have a kind of "family friendly" Wikipedia. Thus,
>> $1M/year is fair price for creating something which would please them.
>
> Assuming that the "10%" figure is accurate, it has no bearing on the
> feature's relative importance.
>
> The same people/corporations might care more about numerous other
> potential uses of the money (including different unimplemented
> features), so your mathematical equation is invalid.
>
> And I reject the premise that it's reasonable to base fund allocations
> on popular opinion, with donors' views carrying extra (all?) weight.
> Our mission is to disseminate information to the world, not to
> "please" donors by catering to their preferences.

In principle yes, but Board wants to please or "please" them.