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Yeah. I always wonder if the complainers do the same deep analysis and whining about how for-profit companies spend their income, or if they just plunk down $12
by coldpie 5y ago
Yeah. I always wonder if the complainers do the same deep analysis and whining about how for-profit companies spend their income, or if they just plunk down $120 for Xbox Game Pass and leave happy. Is Wikipedia worth $20 a year to me? Yeah. So they can have it and spend it how they like. Just like Microsoft can with my Game Pass subscription.
- bashmack 5y agoYou aren't paying for a product. It's crazy people don't even realise that Wikipedia isn't free because they're just nice people who prefer prefer run on donations not capitalism. It's free because they don't own a single word of their encyclopedia. That was how it was set up. They knew they couldn't charge for it, because they weren't paying anyone to write it, and aren't offering any guarantee that you can trust it. It can be copied and hosted freely by anyone. Wikipedia can do what it likes with your money, except, of course, pay someone to write and maintain a trustworthy encyclopedia. Not by choice, by law.