[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Till Westermayer]

Jimmy Wales schrieb am 16.10.2006 22:13:
> Till Westermayer wrote:
>> On the "dream" thread: putting 100.000.000 $ as stock in a foundation 
>> will result in 1.000.000 $ or something per year to spend -- why not 
>> use it that way?
> 
> Well the point is not an unrestricted gift, though that is fun to think 
> about too.  The point is not political lobbying, though that is fun to 
> think about too. :-)
> 
> The point is: suppose someone wanted to buy $100,000,000 of existing 
> copyrighted material and set it free.  What should it be?

For the visionary minded: combine both, set up a foundation with the 
goal to "free" copyrighted material (for wikipedia and others), give 
it $ 100,000,000 so it can use $ 1,000,000 every year from now on for 
buying copyrights. Of course that's not the same impact as spending $ 
100M at once, but it would be a far more sustainable approach to 
change the way copyright works and do something good for a long time.

Of course, even in this model one has to decide on what to spend the 
annual $1M. For a good starting point, I agree with the textbooks 
(college, university) idea.

Till

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