Webwork - 5:06 pm on Dec 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

Someone please correct my misunderstanding.

Isn't it true that anyone is free to employ or deploy all the content of Wikipedia so long as there is attribution according to 'the rules'?

So, what's to stop anyone else from doing the same thing as the founder plans to do? If that's the case then isn't there a bit of a 'success due to competitive advantage' problem?

You mean the competitive advantage is that all those editors will just tag along once their efforts are commercialized and everything will just run as smoothly as ever? Seems like a sweeping assumption. What if a whole host of editors - seeing the commercial handwriting on the wall - veer off to for their own collective and mutual benefit society?

What am I missing?

[edited by: Webwork at 5:08 pm (utc) on Dec. 23, 2006]