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Your description immediately reminded me of Wikipedia. It's a shame these good projects fall to these levels.
by opan 5y ago
Your description immediately reminded me of Wikipedia. It's a shame these good projects fall to these levels.
- gcr 5y agoNonprofits gotta solicit donations. NPR does this, PBS' infamous pledge week does this. This isn't "falling," it's an old practice.
- progbits 5y agoYes that is fine. I'll donate to them again. But can it please be without the annoying banners, "we need to talk" or similar email subjects and so on? I'm sure it helps convince some people, but doesn't it discourage more?
- zinekeller 5y agoI don't know IA's budget (might be just the pandemic has tolled its finances), but I have reservations about Wikimedia's use of money. (Only the main foundation, others like the German affiliate is efficient about money and except for 2020 has a surplus which obviously went to cover inevitable shortfalls.)
- Kon-Peki 5y agoIA is fighting a lawsuit over its pandemic digital book lending service - where they begged for a lawsuit by deliberately offering unlimited lending of scanned books. This is obviously something they must win, so it's going to get really expensive. A quick search shows that the lawsuit is currently in the discovery phase, which is around the time that lawsuits start to get really, really expensive. And apparently the two sides are fighting, leading the judge to extend discovery while they work out the issues. $$$$
- throw10920 5y agoWhy is the lawsuit that they intentionally begged for "obviously something they must win"?
- Kon-Peki 5y agoThe publishers that sued them are asking for a seriously large amount of money and the deletion of all the books they've ever scanned. That's a pretty big deal, don't you think?
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