geni wrote: > 2009/7/18 Yann Forget <[email protected]>: >> In the case of the NPG, it is quite clear that the cost of the >> digitalization is small compared with the potential benefit. >> There are people and organisations willing to pay to have a copy of >> these famous portraits. The issue is how to collect the funds without >> puting a copyright on the images. For this, we need a new business >> model. Think about how donations was raised to free up Blender.[1] >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#History > > €100,000 is not a significant amount of money when dealing with trying > to digitalize the various UK archives.
Comparing the amount raised for a single (quite obscure) software with what could be raised to digitalize world-famous works of art does not make sense. Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
