2008/12/22 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>: > Then, I wanted to see what is the value of Britannica; without > success. It is a "private company" (in US sense of that meaning; > "public companies" in European sense are just companies owned by some > local or state government; and in some specific circumstances). It is > owned by Jacqui Safra, a billionaire [citation needed] [1], who may be > an interesting partner to WMF. So, if it is not possible to buy it, I > think that it is possible to make some deal to work together.
I don't know. He appears to have bought it to keep it going, as a valuable entity in itself. So maybe what we need to do is talk to him about Wikipedia ;-D > And I think that it shouldn't be just about Britannica. There are a > lot of high quality encyclopedias all over the world. WMF may think > about some kind of cooperation with them. It is not possible anymore > to have encyclopedia as a profitable company, so I think that the > institutions which own encyclopedias will be more open for > cooperation; including giving the content under the same license(s) as > under Wikipedia content is. Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class than to trash a perceived competitor the way Britannica try to). What other important language encyclopedias of comparable renown are there? - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l