Re: [Foundation-l] Status of 2009 Fundraiser Survey

2009-12-10 Thread Gregory Kohs
eia says: I'm sorry, but at least in your e-mail you mainly make a lot of statements that I can imagine are worded in such a way that they don't really ask for a reply, and one rethorical question. So if you want information, I suggest you try to put your questions down a little more cons

Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

2009-12-10 Thread Dan Rosenthal
I'm not an expert in the particular arena, but it would seem that the onus of any requirement on individual accounts lies on the account holder; it would be patently unreasonable to expect a website or service provider to have any method of enforcing that. For instance, AOL has not the slightes

Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

2009-12-10 Thread John M. Sinclair
I'm new to this discussion, so I may be inserting at the wrong place and time, but I want to suggest that Wikipedia's counsel determine whether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act implicitly requires individual accounts in order to maintain the Foundation's protections under the Act. I don't know

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia trademark

2009-12-10 Thread Teofilo
In the following news article, it is said that Google showed French journalists in Paris a webpage with search results including Wikipedia in its presentation of its new "Goggles" search engine. I think the WMF lawyers should have a closer look at that and see if WMF is not entitled to a compensat

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of 2009 Fundraiser Survey

2009-12-10 Thread effe iets anders
I'm sorry, but at least in your e-mail you mainly make a lot of statements that I can imagine are worded in such a way that they don't really ask for a reply, and one rethorical question. So if you want information, I suggest you try to put your questions down a little more constructively and maybe