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.)