The point is that you search for a book on Amazon, and find a book for 50 dollars that is just a conglomeration of articles that were put together by a computer, not a human, and therefore have little value. It is just a big rip off.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 November 2010 12:02, <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > >> Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people > >> more > >> savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally > got > >> some > >> dead tree stuff out there with the WMF trademark on them for real. > > > The WMF cannot be, whatsoever, in any position as endorsing the final > > content. > > That would violate the seperation of host to content. > > > Er, books and CDs and DVDs of reprinted Wikipedia content have been > distributed in the past with a licensed name and puzzle globe and WMF > even getting money from said licensing. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
