On 15 April 2014 21:08, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a difficult question. I'm in favour in general, and I think it's a > good idea to support projects that we use and need the money. The problem I > have with it (and that is absent in your points above) is in how far we > have the "moral right" to spend the money donors gave us on other projects. In the case of CC, OSM or Freenode, we prevail upon these organisations' resources considerably; it's akin to outsourcing infrastructure. We use their stuff to a degree that I think it's an obviously right thing, and defensible as such, to support them financially. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
