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Jimmy Wales's Open Source Collaboration Tips

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @07:19AM from the unpunishing-good-deeds dept.

destinyland writes "In a new interview Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales acknowledges his debt to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation and discusses his new open source search project. He applauds the way Open Source developers work around their ideological differences, acknowledges that he's an Ayn Rand objectivist who's skeptical of the wisdom of crowds, and blames Slashdot for his grandstanding comment that Wikipedia would bury Encyclopedia Brittanica within five years."

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Re:Ayn Rand? The fan dancer? by stinerman · 2007-01-30 07:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Even then, if Jimbo is a follower of Rand, he's done about the exact opposite of her views.

Rand would look at Wikipedia and shudder. Wikipedia is the embodiment of altruism. People helping people for reasons other than to further their own status ... sickening. Jimbo should be out exploiting people, not helping them.