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Well, either you did not understand the comment you are replying to, or you believe that Wikipedia will charge for its access. What does make you think such a t
by uniclaude 15y ago
Well, either you did not understand the comment you are replying to, or you believe that Wikipedia will charge for its access. What does make you think such a thing ?
- Tichy 15y agoSo Google is only made to pay because they have a paid version of Maps? If Maps were completely free, they would be good? Who guarantees that Wikipedia never starts charging, as soon as all other information services have been pushed out of the market? Sorry but yes maybe I missed some tidbit in the article?
- cooldeal 15y agoI think the big difference is that Google is using the money from it's monopoly search to artificially subsidize maps below cost. OSM and Wikipedia etc. are doing no such thing.
- icebraining 15y agoWho guarantees that Wikipedia never starts charging, as soon as all other information services have been pushed out of the market? The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content?
- zmmmmm 15y ago> The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content? Wikipedia could change that at any time. Old versions of Wikipedia could be distributed but they wouldn't be up to date any more.
- nitrogen 15y agoActually, Wikipedia can't change the license on existing articles to a more restrictive one, as copyright in the articles remains with the mass of editors that wrote them. In fact, they had to get FSF to add a special exemption just for them to an updated version of the GNU FDL so they could add the less-restrictive CC to their set of licenses.
- drcube 15y agoThe OP said that it's illegal to offer something for free if it costs money to make. I guess Richard Stallman is public enemy #1 in France?