[Wikipedia-l] Re: foundation of a German registered association

[Peter Gervai]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:50:47AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Anthere wrote:

> 
> There is no reason to think that the current group of people involved
> in Wikipedia would do any of that, but we must plan for the longterm,
> for what might happen 50 or 100 years from now, after we are all gone.
> Institutional decisions made today have ramifications many many years
> into the future, especially if we are not cautious.


Think ICANN.

(The board members have to sue one another to get the balance sheets. Pretty
stinky. It used to be a useful, honest gang. Way back in the smelly tarpits
of history.)