Tim Starling hett schreven: > On 10/05/10 15:25, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva wrote: > >> BTW, I also have a broader question. Who entrusted power to the Board >> of Trustees? >> > > Jimmy Wales determined the structure of the Wikimedia Foundation when > he created it. He and Bomis donated the relevant assets, such as the > domain names, to the Foundation at the time it was formed. > > We should remember, when we criticise his use of whatever remnant of > power that he has left, that he could have easily structured Wikimedia > as a for-profit entity, with him retaining majority control. We have > Jimmy to thank for Wikimedia's non-profit status, its open-source > software stack and its free content license. > If Wikipedia wouldn't have been so free today it would stand where Citizendium stands and another free encyclopedia project would have evolved in place. Wikipedia wasn't the only community-driven encyclopedia project. But it made the race and beat all its competitors cause no other project was as free and easily accessible as Wikipedia.
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