If I'm the only person who can see this aspersion, I must be the only person bothering to read Robert's emails:
* "The problem was that PediaPress offered money, which we didn't." * "The difference between PediaPress and this other effort is that PediaPress came from the top down with money in hand..." I'm not sure what conclusion you could make from these statements other than that PediaPress bought their partnership. I have no interest in causing extra drama on Foundation-l (god knows it has plenty), but if someone is going to casually imply that the Foundation's favor can be bought and sold (without any evidence to that effect), I don't see why we should just accept that. I agree there are more important points to discuss, so I'm dropping the issue, but I still reserve the right to question any spurious accusations in the future. Ryan Kaldari On 11/15/10 5:30 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 16 November 2010 01:10, Ryan Kaldari<rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > >> I'm sure the amount of money the Foundation receives from its cut of >> actually published books is negligible - probably a few hundred dollars >> a year. I'm more interested in your insinuation that PediaPress bought >> their partnership status. Since you managed to avoid answering either of >> my questions, I'll assume you have no evidence for these aspersions. >> > > You seem to be making a point of harping on an aspersion that only you > can see. It's not clear that doing so adds more light than heat. > > There is no reason to assume the PediaPress mess is anything more than > SNAFU and that everyone at Wikimedia is anything other than as sincere > and honest as we know they are. > > *However*, that is orthogonal to whether a privileged private closed > source partnership is an acceptable arrangement to keep around. And > the consensus appears to be that this is a question that needs some > serious thought. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
