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 Post subject: selling wikipedia
PostPosted: May 6th, 2008, 11:33 pm 
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wi ... writers_get_paid.php

seems a germany company wants to sell articles from wikipedia. take a read and tell me what you think.






is it okay for a company to copy articles from wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia to make money?

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PostPosted: May 8th, 2008, 12:32 pm 
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trekkie wrote:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_gets_published_should_writers_get_paid.php

seems a germany company wants to sell articles from wikipedia. take a read and tell me what you think.






is it okay for a company to copy articles from wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia to make money?

Hell no. Instead of buying from the company, they could just go look it up on wikipedia. Kinda a dumb idea.

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