Seth<br>Get a life! Go feed the cat or something....<br><br><b><i>Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:07:01AM -0400, Jimmy Wales wrote:<br>> Seth Finkelstein wrote:<br>>> Again, if you want to know what I think (and JW might not like<br>>> his, sigh, I recently got flamed by him over certain strategic analysis<br>>> on a different topic), the project will happen if/when venture<br>>> capitalists and/or "second-tier" search companies are convinced to put<br>>> up the appropriate funding.<br>> <br>> I flamed you before for doing exactly this, yes... speculating randomly <br>> when you are completely wrong and have exactly zero access to information.<br><br> Now, now. You should note I base my statement here on<br>the _New Scientist_ interview:<br><br>Seth Finkelstein: "... the
project will happen if/when venture<br>capitalists and/or "second-tier" search companies are convinced to put<br>up the appropriate funding."<br><br>Jimmy Wales, _New Scientist_ interview:<br>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325896.300-interview-knowledge-to-the-people.html<br>"It's too early for specifics, but one thing that has worked is an<br>alliance in which people contribute to a free software project. ... So<br>it makes sense for second-tier search companies who are falling behind<br>Google to contribute to a free search software project that will make<br>us equal to Google in terms of search quality."<br><br> I could perhaps be criticized for too unqualified paraphrasing<br>(from "one thing that has worked", to "the project will happen if/when"),<br>but it's clear I'm just giving my speculation. It's hardly random as I<br>do supply the information I'm using, which is your own interview statement.<br><br> This is the sort of thing where it looks like the
problem is<br>really in being right.<br><br>> Everything is underway just fine. If people think that we can put<br>> together a project magically and overnight, they really don't<br>> understand how these things work. :)<br><br> Well, I think it's a little unfair to criticize people given<br>that there have been so many public statements that the project is<br>operational now, when it's not (or at least, in terms of access to<br>information, nobody outside of Wikia (?) seems to have seen it - not<br>that I'd want someone to throw some servers together so as to meet a<br>milestone, I'd think that a waste of resources).<br><br> I know how it goes, I've seen far worse in my time (heck, to a<br>reasonable approximation, here I can only get flamed, not fired). But<br>still, the shoot-the-messenger strategy is morally wrong.<br><br>[P.S.: If you don't believe the moral argument, the cynical<br>argument is that it makes you look desperate to the moneybags :-).<br>Blame
the media instead, that's traditional :-)]<br><br>-- <br>Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer http://sethf.com/<br>Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/<br>Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php<br>_______________________________________________<br>Search-l mailing list<br>Search-l@wikia.com<br>http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/search-l<br>Change options or unsubscribe: http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/options/search-l<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------------<br>Why are those young beautiful kids dying in war?<br>Instead, Send these useless drug addicts there.<br><br>Most people are conditioned to wait a maximum of 2 weeks<br>to see results of their labor. Those people are the ones<br>with a J.O.B<br><br>Why would you want someone to do good for you more than<br>you would want to do it yourself? What have I done for<br>me lately? There is always an audience for your finger<br>pointing
woes.<br><br>One cannot spell change in their lives by reading the<br>past over and over again. - Chris The Buddha<br> <br>I, Chris Desouza is the Buddha. I am the know it all.<br>I am the enlightened one.<br><br>The person who says it can't be done shouldn't<br>interrupt the person who is doing it.- from the wall<br>of the Mountain Rose Cafe in Winter Park, Colorado.<br> <br>I don't want to be successful.<br>No one can take credit for it. (Me said that!)<br><br>I'd rather be poor than dishonest. (Me said that too!)<br>-----------------------------------------------------<p> 
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