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for as much as he rips on Jimmy Wales, I'm sure Jimmy would love to make a spectacle of this



If he did, he'd make a fool of himself. Wikipedia explicitly allows this sort of thing, it's one of the founding principles of the site. And I think it's great, IMO it's one of the reasons the site is so successful.

That someone running a shitty recycled content farm is making money off of it doesn't alter a damn thing.

And that's not to say that Calacanis is adding anything of value to the web or anything like that, he's certainly not, as far as I can tell, but I just can't get too worked up when someone actually makes use of the license freedoms that we all fight so strenuously to spread...

WTF re: Google, though, I can't believe for one second that this is not on their radar?




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