Tag: Jimmy Wales
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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn’t matter that it’s done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales
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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
Jimmy Wales
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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We’re doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Jimmy Wales
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don’t mind making money elsewhere. They aren’t anticommercial.
Jimmy Wales
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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they’re viewed as proprietary.
Jimmy Wales
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Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We’ve moved a long way from that, and that’s important.
Jimmy Wales
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I’m a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales
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There’s a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
Jimmy Wales
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
Jimmy Wales
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I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international.
Jimmy Wales