Ian Woollard wrote: > On 27/08/2010, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wikipedia needs competitors. >> > Realistically, the space that Wikipedia occupies seems to be a more or > less a natural monopoly. >
What makes any monopoly "natural"? > And Wikipedia doesn't even make money per se, so why would anyone even > want to be a competitor to it? There's no market. A market is where > people pay for stuff. > That seems to reflect the fundamental error of economists: that anything that cannot be monetized is by definition worthless. > It's not like Wikipedia is abusing its monopoly power. Is it? > How can you know? Without competition there is no way of evaluating that statement. NPOV cannot be evaluated when there are no POV sites for comparison. Even when there are other sites supporting the ideal of NPOV about a given subject they can reach different results. Abuse of monopoly power does not come from any willful intent, but from the zealous belief that the monopoly is right. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
