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Today, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, elected to [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/technology/companies/04apple.html step down] from his post on the Apple board of directors.  As Google was moving more and more into Apple's core lines of business, it became clear that Schmidt's interests and obligations to each company were becoming blurred.

Today, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, elected to [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/technology/companies/04apple.html step down] from his post on the Apple board of directors.  As Google was moving more and more into Apple's core lines of business, it became clear that Schmidt's interests and obligations to each company were becoming blurred.

==Comments==

==Comments==

;Nihiltres       

 

:It was my impression that Wikia tries not to compete with Wikipedia: Wikia’s wiki creation policy says that “Wikia also does not duplicate Wikimedia projects, so if you are interested in general reference works we encourage you to join Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects in your language instead.” Is that really ‘competing’? Wikia’s narrow-focus, subculture communities actually seem to help keep Wikipedia clean of fancruft.

:I don’t really want to defend Wales on the whole Wikia/Wikimedia issue*, but I do think that he tries reasonably to keep either from harming or interfering with the other. He also doesn’t have a good choice anymore: if he steps down from Wikimedia, they lose him as the public face that has pulled in extra donations, and if he steps down from Wikia, he loses his day job. I don’t envy him this dilemma.

 

:<nowiki>*</nowiki>(I’d rather have seen some sort of wiki co-op, or even ad-supported wiki-communities to help fund Wikimedia, not to mention the conflict of interest issues)

Nihiltres       

;Gregory Kohs       

It was my impression that Wikia tries not to compete with Wikipedia: Wikia’s wiki creation policy says that “Wikia also does not duplicate Wikimedia projects, so if you are interested in general reference works we encourage you to join Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects in your language instead.” Is that really ‘competing’? Wikia’s narrow-focus, subculture communities actually seem to help keep Wikipedia clean of fancruft.

:Wikia does not duplicate Wikimedia projects?

 

:Oh, really?

I don’t really want to defend Wales on the whole Wikia/Wikimedia issue*, but I do think that he tries reasonably to keep either from harming or interfering with the other. He also doesn’t have a good choice anymore: if he steps down from Wikimedia, they lose him as the public face that has pulled in extra donations, and if he steps down from Wikia, he loses his day job. I don’t envy him this dilemma.

:http://history.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

:http://math.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

*(I’d rather have seen some sort of wiki co-op, or even ad-supported wiki-communities to help fund Wikimedia, not to mention the conflict of interest issues)

:http://geology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

:http://hollywood.wikia.com/wiki/Hollywood_Stars_Wiki

Gregory Kohs       

:http://chemistry.wikia.com/wiki/Chemistry_Wiki

Wikia does not duplicate Wikimedia projects?

:I get a big kick out of you, Nihiltres, because you are sweet and adorable in how trusting you are of things related to Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales.

 

:By the way, as far as Wikia being Jimbo’s “day job”, he recently offered to waive his salary from Wikia, which wouldn’t surprise me in light of them having to lay off workers upon the closure of Wikia Search.  He’s made most of his lifetime of income from speaker’s fees, anyway.

Oh, really?

:Who needs a salary when you can jump on a trampoline in the office?  That’s what success is all about.  Right?

 

http://history.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

http://math.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

http://geology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

http://hollywood.wikia.com/wiki/Hollywood_Stars_Wiki

 

http://chemistry.wikia.com/wiki/Chemistry_Wiki

 

I get a big kick out of you, Nihiltres, because you are sweet and adorable in how trusting you are of things related to Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales.

 

By the way, as far as Wikia being Jimbo’s “day job”, he recently offered to waive his salary from Wikia, which wouldn’t surprise me in light of them having to lay off workers upon the closure of Wikia Search.  He’s made most of his lifetime of income from speaker’s fees, anyway.

 

Who needs a salary when you can jump on a trampoline in the office?  That’s what success is all about.  Right?