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