Wikipedia Gets a Corporate Partner - Wall Street Journal

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Wikipedia Gets a Corporate Partner - Wall Street Journal

Newsfeed	Thu 23rd April 2009, 5:38am Post #1
Postmaster General Group: Bots Posts: 3,272 Joined: Mon 3rd Sep 2007, 9:29pm Member No.: 2,885	•Wikipedia Gets a Corporate Partner Wall Street Journal By Geoffrey A. Fowler On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation – the organization that runs online “encyclopedia” Wikipedia — announced its first large content partnership with a major company, Orange, the European telecom brand of France Telecom. ... View the article

SirFozzie	Thu 23rd April 2009, 6:38am Post #2
Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 806 Joined: Thu 29th Mar 2007, 3:32pm Member No.: 1,200 WP user page - talk check - contribs	Now this is interesting. Something about it gives me the heebie jeebies, but that might be my general distrust of the corporate world where "partnering" with something is one step away from "interfering" with that same thing, or "taking over" said thing.

Jon Awbrey	Thu 23rd April 2009, 6:18pm Post #3
τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε Group: Moderators Posts: 6,745 Joined: Sun 6th Apr 2008, 4:52am From: Meat Puppet Nation Member No.: 5,619 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(SirFozzie @ Thu 23rd April 2009, 2:38am) Now this is interesting. Something about it gives me the heebie jeebies, but that might be my general distrust of the corporate world where "partnering" with something is one step away from "interfering" with that same thing, or "taking over" said thing. Ha Ha — you're about a year and a half away from having to pay JimbOrange Corp to use derivatives of your own slave labor. Hear me now and believe me later … Jon

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