RE: [Bug-gnupedia] It's in your hands

[Hector Facundo Arena]

Well Jimmy, I think we can *really* work togheter being separate projects in
the future.

I also want to say that I *really* apreciate all the things you tried to
merge the projects. Guys, Jimmy Wales has 'the spirit' of GNU inside
himself. He's the kind of people we need on the GNU community.

Perhaps you still don't understand my reasons to not to merge the projects,
I hope you will in the future.

Thank you very much for your comments. We at this mailing list will help
Nupedia in all the things we can. Just ask and we'll there. Long live to
Nupedia and long live to the Free Universal Encyclopedia and Educational
Resource.

>
> GNE community:
>
> I've decided to stop campaigning, because I don't want my vigorous
> campaigning to start _creating_ the kind of division that I hope to
> avoid.  Hector and RMS will surely decide what they want to do, and I
> will accept and support it, even if I don't totally agree that it is
> the right way to go.  The most important thing is that we move
> together in harmony.
>
> I have a vision of a free encyclopedia.  It will not be a free
> respository of random crap.  It will be a resource, translated into
> every language of the world, and distributed through the cheapest
> possible means, to empower every single person on the planet with
> _knowledge_.  Knowledge of _facts_; a shining example of the power of
> objectivity and reason in the service of human life on this earth.
>
> It will be distributed over the web.  It will be printed up by private
> companies, at the competitive price of the cost of paper, with no
> licensing fees of any kind, and distributed even to remote villages
> too poor to have electricity or clean water.
>
> Somewhere, in some place that I have never seen nor heard of, there
> will be born a great musician, a great artist, a great programmer.
> And that person will be handed access to this encyclopedia, where he
> or she will find in clear and concise fashion, the consensus knowledge
> of the finest minds in the world.  And that person will grow up to do
> amazing things.
>
> That's what drives me.  And that's what I will see happen, in my
> lifetime.
>
> I'm 34 years old now.  I'll be 74 before we're done... except that
> we'll never be done, because there will always be more to do.
>
> Whatever we decide here will probably not matter in the long run.  If
> a poor decision here slows us down by 2 years or 5 years, then so be it.
> I am sure that I will make other poor decisions in the future, which
> will slow us down 2 more years, or 5 more years.  That's o.k.  I have
> persistence of vision, which will see this thing through.
>
> So, if GNE wants to split away from Nupedia, then I can't stop it.
> I've said my piece for peace.  I've given my reasons, and tried to
> answer every objection.
>
> Now it is time for other people to make their own decisions, and for us
> all to move forward in a spirit of friendship and passion for the project
> at hand.
>
> --Jimbo
>
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